Book Nook - The Rising Order

 This gripping dystopian duology, which just concluded, pays homage to the dystopia that inspired a generation—while charting new territory with its adult protagonist, Flynn. Set in a fractured, authoritarian Chicago, The Rising Order and its sequel, The New Order, explore themes of propaganda, resistance, and personal redemption. Isenthal’s work is both a pulse-pounding page-turner and a timely meditation on the cost of freedom and the power of revolution

Chicago has fallen and Flynn Zarytsky, an unwilling accomplice in the city’s takeover by REDS, has gone into hiding. As she and her fellow Allies, rebels to the new terrorist regime, scrounge for supplies and survival among the darkened buildings, measures grow desperate. When a meeting gone awry sends Flynn across the path of a familiar face, she’s flung once more into a troubled partnership that could determine the city’s fate.

Alliances are formed and tested as Flynn, Nate, and their comrades create an ambitious plan that could save the nation—or get them all killed. If they want any chance of success, they must learn to place trust and hope in unlikely places. Can redemption be found for those who have done the most harm but suffered the deepest hurt? Is forgiveness, empathy, even love possible among the broken pieces of REDS’s new order?

The action continues in this second installment of Claire Isenthal’s thrilling series, a page-turning read not to be missed.

Buy book 1 HERE.

Buy book 2 HERE.

Author 

Claire Isenthal lives in the suburbs of Indianapolis with her husband, their soon-to-be three children, and their mutt. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Purdue University and worked in Big Tech for almost a decade before leaving her career in digital advertising. Her first novel, The Rising Order, was an Amazon bestseller. The New Order is her second novel and the final installment in her thriller duology. Claire is an International Thriller Writers (ITW) member and has a Substack for new authors — Rising Talent, Earning Your Space in the Publishing Industry.