WARPATH

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Countess Trilogy Book 2

Countess returns to find her world on the brink of collapse. The two kingdoms stand at the precipice of total war, and the fragile peace she once served has shattered beyond repair.

Holly offers a path forward: Iroquois Warpath, a nearby subterranean PHOENIX facility, holds answers about humanity’s fate—and perhaps a way to save what remains of civilization. But to reach it, Countess must forge an alliance with Priestess, the woman she defeated and imprisoned.

What begins as an uneasy truce becomes something more as they descend into Warpath’s depths. Alongside Lin and Stitch, the unlikely team faces PHOENIX’s deadliest trials yet—automated defenses, psychological warfare, and the horrifying remnants of pre-war experiments—and evidence of shipments on an unimaginable scale. But what was the destination of these supply shipments?

Each level of the Iroquois Warpath facility strips away layers of lies, revealing the true scope of PHOENIX’s ambitions and the role the Operarius were always meant to play.

At the facility’s heart, they discover the ultimate truth: Legacy, an artificial intelligence sent into deep space before the Day of Fire, has found a new home for humanity—something she calls Dark Pearl. But Legacy has gone silent, and her last transmission was a distress call.

To reach her, they must travel to GRIDIRON, a surveillance vessel and the destination of those mysterious shipments. The ship has the only portal to Dark Pearl, but it’s not what it seems. What was thought to be a nautical vessel is actually a spaceship.

As Countess and her team step through the portal to GRIDIRON, they leave behind everything they’ve ever known—carrying with them the weight of the fact that they may be humanity’s last hope.