The War of Free Minds
Paperback
Series: The Obedience War, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five cities woke.
Only three stayed free.
After the Ten-City Attempt shatters the Obedience Net, Alice Cruz should have a victory. Instead, she has three wounded Free Cities trapped behind unstable pulse fences, surrounded by a world that still smiles on command. The citizens she helped awaken are starving, grieving, furious, and unprepared for the brutal work of governing themselves.
Freedom has returned.
So has pain.
While Alice fights to keep the resistance from becoming another kind of tyranny, Robert Long races to hold the fences together, Kyle Reed tries to defend justice from revenge, and Eva Motroni struggles to make her family's name mean something other than privilege, betrayal, and guilt.
Outside the Free Cities, Francis Motroni becomes the public face of restoration. Under the guidance of James Powell, he offers the world a beautiful argument: peace is mercy, pain is injury, and the Free Cities are proof that freedom is too dangerous to survive.
But Powell's mercy has teeth.
As propaganda, hunger, family, and fear become weapons, the war changes shape. It is no longer only a fight against obedience. It is a fight over what freedom is allowed to cost-and whether people can resist tyranny without becoming monstrous themselves.
The second book in The Obedience War trilogy, The War of Free Minds is a dark, cinematic dystopian sci-fi thriller about rebellion, memory, bodily control, political fracture, and the terrible price of choosing truth over peace.
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