Böcker av T. A. Styles

The fight for a new way of life has begun. Two months after Vash's fall, and with the return of Sky's Uncle Mike and his men, the orphans of the fortress are ready to forge the kingdom initiative, designed to create a territorial government that will pave the way to a new future. With the help of an underground community known as the moles, and another group called the preserve, the people of the heights and the fortress unite to set their plans for the future in motion. But a new enemy lurks in the shadows, threatening to unravel all of their carefully laid plans.Kane, once a local drug lord and criminal, has taken control of a nearby island. With his vast army of soldiers, he has plans for a future of his own. A future very different from the world envisioned by Sim when he set out to save the orphans years before. Sim's life-the fortress-had been dedicated to raising up leaders capable of reawakening the world with love and leadership, not destroying what was left of humanity with a cruel dictatorship.This time, it's not only the orphans of the fortress whose survival is at stake, but everyone in their community who stand to suffer under Kane's tyranny. They will have to rally together and fight for the future they've worked so hard to build or risk losing everything.Will Kane ruin their plans for a new world, or will the kingdom rise?

Monsters rarely stay dead and buried. They have a way of reaching for you from the grave.Sim had warned them about strangers. He set strict rules. But Sim is gone, and the remaining orphans are creating a new life - and new rules - for themselves.In the months since Zagan's defeat, the fortress has become a beacon of hope for those seeking asylum from the dangers of the fallen world. When travelers led by a man named Vash show up at the fortress's doorstep, the kids follow their new protocol: they welcome the strangers, peculiar as they may be, and send them on to Charlie at the heights.Little do the orphans know that the arrival of Vash and his group threatens everything they hold dear.What started as a harmless encounter spirals into a psychological game of terror as the fortress comes under attack, this time by a group that uses stealth and deceit to exact revenge for Zagan's death. If the orphans hope to survive, they must remember everything that Sim taught them, even as the enemy aims to break them down, take away their hope, and tear them apart.Will they rise to the challenge, or will the revenant of their past come to claim them, one by one?

We are the fortress, and the fortress is us. Sim was a teacher in his old life. Now he's the savior of orphans.He isn't their father. God knows he has already failed in that role. But he is their guide. And the kids? They are his penance. His redemption.For three years Sim has prepared his orphans for the hard realities of life after the plague that wiped out most of the global population. Theirs is a life without laws or creature comforts. He has trained them to forage and grow their own food, to be vigilant, and to protect themselves and each other by any means necessary. In building a fortress of brick and mortar, they've become a fortress of flesh and blood.These allegiances and ideals are put to the test when a man named Zagan, who believes himself to be on a mission for the devil to bring about the destruction of civilization's remains, gathers hundreds of marauders and confronts Sim and his orphans in a merciless siege.Will the fortress hold... Or will it collapse under the pressure of evil?