In the thrilling Resistance final chapter, Adoni Rathborne must make good on her promise to the Resistance: to tear down the Sovereign's walls, no matter the cost, even if it means choosing between the ones she loves.
Alexis Rathborne is living as a chosen, where food and air are untaxed, and her gowns and hair are adorned with jewels. She even has the favor of Liam Mallory, who is helping her with her treatment. She yearns for the time when she will no longer be sick, however, as her treatments continue, she finds during her blackouts she is doing and saying things she doesn't remember.
Watching Alexis seemingly happy, healthy, and pushing the Sovereign's agenda on Portscreens is agonizing. Adoni can't help but think that Alexis is being coerced. As Alexis smiles through the portscreen to boast about the Sovereign and their generiosity, something twists in Adoni's stomach. Something isn't right.
More alarming in the Sovereign's dark and twisted intent, are the thousands of clones waiting to be remoted into life. Made from the DNA of the stolen children of the Giving, they will be stronger, faster, and more resilient. A super race that will follow the Sovereign blindly and will never push back.
With time running out, spies on both sides are working to change the other's course. Adoni has to navigate to her only goal, getting to her sister, while traitors and those she called friends, hatch deadly plans for the Sovereign's benefit.
No one is whom they seem. Lux Mallory, once trusted, is a murderer, a fact no one can deny. Tenebris, a traitor of the Resistance, can illuminate them with the truth about their parents and the lies and deceit they grew up with, all in the name of freedom.
Can she and the Alliances finally stop the controlling govern and put in its place a republic where the people are not unarmed and their voices are heard and matter? Or will the Sovereign once again prevail and everything Adoni loves and has fought for, die forever? The Founders Ball offers the Resistance their big chance: to eradicate the Sovereign and their deception, to blow the domes, and to kill the Councilmembers.
But will their means justify the end?