The Last Republic

The Republic erased the truth. Mara Veldt is about to bring it back.Three years after disappearing from the Republic's records, Mara Veldt lives by one rule: trust no one. But when she infiltrates a forbidden radio tower and intercepts a broadcast the government thought it had destroyed, she discovers a message capable of exposing the secrets buried at the heart of the regime.Pursued through flooded tunnels, abandoned government districts and a city wired for surveillance, Mara joins forces with Joren Kade and a handful of resistance fighters. But every escape seems to lead to another trap. A captured ally, a mysterious cipher and the name of Elias Rook - a man officially executed eighteen years ago - point towards a conspiracy far older and more dangerous than Mara imagined.The deeper she follows the trail, the more she realises that the Republic's greatest weapon is not its armies or machines, but its ability to control what people remember, what they believe, and even who officially exists.Now Mara must decide how much truth is worth risking - and whom she can trust when anyone could be leading the Republic straight to her.The Last Republic is a tense dystopian thriller about resistance, surveillance, buried history and the dangerous price of exposing the truth.