Familiar faces. Brand new alliances. An impossible enemy in their midst...

The Chicago survivors stagger into town on fumes. They're injured, distraught and suffering from innumerable losses. At Rock's homestead, however - in the midst of a new threat - Fire and the group reunite with family and take refuge with local survivors. Here they come to realize the enemy of humanity has been posing as one of their own: a human. No one really knows what this means. Some realize they've leapt out of the frying pan and into the fire, while others see an opportunity to exact revenge. But for the select few, it means both...

• NOTE: The Age of Embers Series can be read as a stand alone series or in addition to The Last War Series. Both series are written in the same universe on the same timeline and some characters will overlap, especially here in the series finale, The Age of Defiance. With tens of millions of pages read, more than seventy-thousand books sold, and hundreds of five star reviews, the award-winning The Complete Last War Series is the perfect compliment to The Age of Embers Series.

WHAT FANS OF THE AGE OF DEFIANCE ARE SAYING...

"A Page Turner! Ryan Schow delivers the final episode of this dynamic saga in a manner that ties up loose ends and returns hope for the future to our heroes."

- Donna, Amazon Reviewer

"Gripping from start to finish! I could not put this book down and finished it in one day. What can I say, Ryan is truly gifted although twisted. Five home runs as far as I am concerned for the entire Age of Embers series."

- Cobbinwebbs, Amazon Reviewer

"Tears, laugher, despair, redemption. Ryan Schow has again bested himself. The characters he creates are believable, infused with love, intelligence, humanity and compassion. However none of them is perfect and each embodies a flaw or frailty which hinders the decision-making process."

- Caron MacDonald, Amazon Reviewer

THE COMPLETE AGE OF EMBERS SERIES:

The Age of Embers

The Age of Hysteria

The Age of Reprisal

The Age of Exodus

The Age of Defiance

THE COMPLETE LAST WAR SERIES:

The Last War

The Zero Hour

The Ophidian Horde

The Infernal Regions

The Killing Fields

The Barbarous Road

The Terminal Run

DARK DAYS OF THE AFTER SERIES

The Last Light of Day

Dark Days of the After

Dark Days of the Surge

Dark Days of the Apostasy ( February, 2020 )