How many lies are too many in war?How many innocent deaths are acceptable collateral when saving the world? With the discovery of a new lead in NimKoruguithu, Brenorra Warring is pulled back into the intrigue surrounding her father's death. After having a fleeting chance at a new life on Aethscaul Island, Bren hopes that all she'll have to do is solve another coded message. That would have been nice: just go in, get the binder, get out... But the more she discovers, the more clear it becomes that there is much more at stake than finding her father's last binder full of secrets.After a devastating betrayal, trust becomes a treacherous commodity as NaVarre's fight to bring down the Ascended moves from the jungles of the colonies to the glittering ballrooms of high society on the Altyran Coalition continent - where innocence is bought and sold, and beauty can be a weapon or a death sentence.Determined to help finish what her father started, Bren finds herself living a lie and surrounded by deceit and suspicion, drawn deeper and deeper into NaVarre's world of greed and political manipulation. She must learn to hold onto her identity in Christ and walk with the Lord on the razor's edge between hunting monsters and becoming one. The riveting story that started in Shadow Road continues in this second installment of the Shadows of Resistance series. NOTE: This is a complete rewrite of a previously published secular novel of the same name.