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Echoes of rebellion
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: S.L.Payne
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the dystopian world of Echoes of Rebellion: We Rise at Dawn, silence is the law. Set in a future where humanity is governed by The Collective, citizens are forced to wear neural implants that suppress all emotions-grief, love, and interest-to maintain a sterile, calculated peace.Plot SummaryThe story follows Nova Ryel, a maintenance worker in Sector 9 whose life changes when a technical error in her implant allows her to feel for the first time. A single tear, witnessed by a surveillance drone, marks her as an anomaly destined for recalibration-a process that effectively erases a person's soul.Nova's journey into the resistance begins when she meets Jace Taryn, a hacker who has secretly disabled his own emotional inhibitor. Jace reveals the horrific truth behind the Memory Tower, where the Collective keeps the un-erasable glitches they couldn't fix. Forced to flee the sector, Nova crosses into the Zone 0 ruins of the old world. There, she meets Mae, a survivor of the original collective who reveals Nova's true identity as the daughter of Erynn Ryel, a legendary resistance leader who was erased by the Core.
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