The Rising
Ann Knight
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(, June 22, 2015)
When you’re the daughter of a notorious rebel leader, life is anything but easy.Rachel Warner was trained to be a survivor. It's graduating year at the Academy, and she is set to achieve with honors. She will lead the next generation of teenage soldiers, if she can overcome all of the pressure from her peers. Her father is the Chief of law enforcement and his expectations are high. But it's not the Chief's expectations that worry her... it's the idea of getting caught—because she is not who she pretends to be. She's passed the medicals and routine check-ups, but she isn’t Rachel Warner. Her name is Darion Rhys and her grandfather spear-headed the rebellion that is steadily growing in strength and numbers—the rebellion that poses a serious threat to the world leader.If Darion’s secret gets out, it will endanger the lives of all those she cares for. She is deceiving her friends in the worst way, but she has no choice. To allow an emotional attachment to someone who isn’t in her circle would be disastrous. She masks her feelings well, but classmate Leo Pierce finds a way around her walls. He makes her life difficult—theirs is a love/hate relationship—they hate to love each other, and love to hate each other—even though the pretense of their hate is completely transparent to everyone around them. Burdened by the weight of her mission, and feeling a million miles away from her home and family, Darion manages to keep her head in the game. Her only hope is to get through graduation without attracting more attention, but Leo is more than happy to be a thorn in her side until then. Navigating the challenges that are in her path, she catches the eye of young Johnny Rothwell—the heir to the Rothwell throne and legacy, and son of her grandfather's nemesis. Johnny represents an opportunity—her only chance to help her family come out of hiding. All she has to do is play a part—and she's already done that for most of her life. How can one resist the advances of the future world leader, after all? Little does Darion realize that she is entering a web so thick, so impenetrable, that it will take all of her training to get out of it. Being on the arm of a Rothwell may be an irresistible opportunity, but it will come at a price—one that this young girl will not be ready for...