Here is our full chapter-by-chapter and video breakdown of Red Rising, Book 1.
So, whether you’ve already read it and want a refresher or just want a clear run-through of the story, this recap is designed to give you everything you need.
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Chapter 1: Helldiver
Darrow is a sixteen-year-old Red and the youngest Helldiver in Lambda, one of twenty-four mining clans of Lykos beneath Mars. Reds mine helium-3 for the Society while believing they are terraforming the planet for future generations.
We learn that Darrow’s father was previously hanged for defiance against the Society, but Darrow focuses on surviving and supporting his family and wife, Eo. The clans compete for the Laurel, which awards extra rations to the highest-producing clan, though Gamma always seems to win.
When Darrow encounters a possible gas pocket in a promising vein, Uncle Narol orders him to wait for a scanCrew. Believing the risk could win Lambda the Laurel, Darrow descends the shaft alone.
Chapter 2: The Township
Darrow completes the scan but becomes trapped beneath a drill gear. He cuts himself free with his slingBlade, injures his hand, and climbs out. The gas pocket is minor, but the helium-3 count is high enough that Lambda should finally win the Laurel.
During the tram ride home they see a holoCan broadcast a speech from Octavia au Lune, the Society’s Sovereign praising the Reds as pioneers preparing Mars for colonization, though Darrow doubts they will ever share in that future.
Back in Lykos, Darrow meets with his wife Eo who hints that she has a surprise for after the Laureltide celebration.
Chapter 3: The Laurel
At Laureltide, a Society broadcast blames the Sons of Ares, led by a figure known as Ares, for a terrorist bombing. Darrow dismisses the rebels and describes the Color hierarchy, with Golds at the top, above Obsidians, Grays, Oranges, Coppers, and Reds at the bottom.
Although Darrow is sure his clan Lambda produced the most helium-3, at midnight once again the Laurel is awarded Gamma, forcing Darrow to finally see that the competition has been rigged all along.
Chapter 4: The Gift
Eo leads him away from the celebration, through the Webbery and out through a ventilation duct, into a hidden garden containing real trees, grass, flowers, insects, and a clear dome showing the night sky and the Andromeda Galaxy. It’s the first time Darrow has ever seen the sky.
After making love, Eo argues that the Reds are not pioneers but slaves, that they mine and die so distant Golds can one day own a Mars the Reds will never inherit. She wants Darrow to lead their people and continue his father’s dream of freedom, even if resistance means death. Darrow refuses, believing survival and family matter most.
As they return through the ducts, they hear voices indicating they’ve been discovered.
Chapter 5: The First Song
Darrow surrenders rather than fight, refusing to die over the trespass despite Eo urging him to resist; they’re taken to the cells and three days later, they’re brought to the gallows in the Common to be flogged publicly before a broadcast audience presided over by ArchGovernor Nero au Augustus, ruler of Mars and one of the Peerless Scarred Golds.
Darrow receives forty-eight lashes and when Eo’s lashing begins, Eo begins to sing the forbidden song of death and lament, calling on the Reaper and urging the Reds to break their chains.
Augustus lets her finish for the cameras, then orders her hanged.
Chapter 6: The Martyr
During Eo’s hanging, before she drops, she calls out her sister Dio for a final word, Eo drops, and Darrow pulls her legs to break her neck to end her suffering, as is the custom on Mars.
Darrow slips out through a hidden tunnel he carved as a child, but is intercepted by Uncle Narol, who gives him a strange tasting drink from his flask.
Darrow cuts Eo’s body down, which was still hanging, and buries her in the hidden garden beneath a tree. He returns home, where he is arrested, sentenced to death, and hung.
Chapter 7: Lazarus
Darrow wakes buried alive and claws his way out of the ground in an abandoned mine tunnel. Uncle Narol drugged him to fake his death, and didn’t pull his feet hard enough to break his neck after he was hung.
Two Members of the Sons of Ares retrieve him, including a woman whose face is half scarred named Harmony.
They tell Darrow that Ares has a mission for him and take him to a hidden warehouse base, where he is to meet someone named Dancer.
Chapter 8: Dancer
Dancer, a longtime Sons of Ares leader, who learned about Darrow through his Uncle Narol, explains that the Sons of Ares takes its name from the Greek god of rage and war and recounts how the Golds built their empire and control through a war they call the Conquering, butchering all who resisted.
Dancer tests Darrow with a rigged card game in which both choices lose. Darrow eats his card instead and claims victory, refusing to play by rigged rules, and thus passing Dancer’s test.
The Sons of Ares continue to broadcast Eo’s song across the colonies, to inspire the Reds to resist.
Darrow is then taken to the surface, where a fully terraformed Mars is revealed and Darrow learns that the Reds have been lied to for generations.
Chapter 9: The Lie
Dancer explains to Darrow how the Color system was developed during humanity’s expansion into space and how Luna defeated Earth in the Conquering, creating an empire built on lower-Color labor.
Realizing Eo was right all along, although it is worse than even she knew, Darrow asks what reclaiming Mars will require.
Chapter 10: The Carver
Dancer talks with Darrow the true structure of the Society: a thousand cities span Mars, warships travel between planets, and Luna is ruled by Sovereign Octavia au Lune and her Ash Lord. Below them sit the Peerless Scarred, the twelve Olympic Knights, the countless Obsidian warriors, Grays for order, Whites for justice, Pinks for pleasure, Silvers for finance, Yellows for medicine, Greens for technology, Coppers for bureaucracy, and Blues to pilot ships.
Dancer then takes Darrow to meet Mickey, a Violet Carver who surgically redesigns bodies and explains to Darrow that his mission requires him to be carved from a red into a gold.
Chapter 11: Mad
Mickey refuses at first, calling the plan impossible. Even if he can do the impossible by altering Darrow’s body, he doubts a Red will be able to think and pass as a Gold. To prove Mickey wrong, Darrow silently picks up Mickey’s shape-shifting electronic puzzle cube and solves it by feel, convincing him that Darrow may be capable.
Dancer also explains that Darrow’s goal once carved into a Gold is to enter the Institute, become Peerless Scarred, and eventually gain command over armies and fleets.
Chapter 12: The Carving
Mickey carves Darrow into a Gold over months of agony, rebuilding his skeleton to Gold bone density, reworking his muscles, tendons, spine, skull and face, replacing his eyes, and attaching Gold Sigils and a stolen datachip.
Harmony then puts Darrow through intense physical conditioning while he speed-learns thousands of years of history, literature, and law. By the end, Darrow has grown broader, faster, and stronger than most natural Golds.
Before leaving Mickey, Darrow confronts him over his treatment of Evey, the Pink girl with wings, and warns him to treat her kindly.
Chapter 13: Bad Things
Darrow continues training with Matteo, a Pink tutor who teaches him Gold culture, manners, speech, dining, and how to eliminate his Red accent and slang.
Matteo also teaches Darrow about the razor, the signature weapon of Golds, which can change from a flexible whip into a blade harder than diamond and is capable of cutting through pulseShields.
Dancer wants to give Darrow a new name, but Darrow insists on keeping his first name and becomes Darrow au Andromedus. Dancer reminds Darrow that he is fighting not simply for revenge but to carry Eo’s dream and eventually gain enough power to change the Society.
Chapter 14: Andromedus
Matteo discovers Darrow is already an exceptional dancer because of the dances Uncle Narol taught him growing up. The Gold martial dance called the Polemides comes particularly naturally because it closely resembles the forbidden Red Reaping Dance.
His ability briefly makes Matteo suspicious of Darrow’s true identity. Matteo reminds him that if the Society discovers the deception, Darrow, his family, Dancer, and the others will all be tortured and killed.
Darrow later begins horseback riding lessons, where a golden-haired girl on a black stallion mocks him for being a “Pixie” after he is thrown from a pony.
Chapter 15: The Testing
Darrow takes the Institute admissions test and performs exceptionally well in both the written and physical portions. There he meets and befriends Cassius au Bellona, son of one of Mars’s most powerful military families, which has a long-standing feud with the Augustus family.
Darrow also encounters the golden-haired girl he encountered during his horse lessons again and hears her whistling Eo’s forbidden song.
Matteo explains that doing well at the Institute can earn Darrow an apprenticeship with an influential Gold, eventually providing a path toward commanding the armies and fleets the Sons of Ares need him to control.
Chapter 16: The Institute
Because Darrow scores nearly perfectly on the Institute exam, the Board of Quality Control investigates him for cheating. Darrow successfully lies through their interrogation, and his admission is confirmed.
Before leaving, Dancer gives Darrow his knifeRing, while Matteo gives him an iron Pegasus necklace where Darrow keeps a petal from Eo’s haemanthus flower.
On the flight to the Institute, Darrow befriends Cassius’s twin brother, Julian au Bellona, and meets a strange and hostile Sevro, who mentions a mysterious event called the Passage.
At the Institute, Nero au Augustus gives a speech arguing that Golds deserve to rule because they have been strengthened through hardship. He then mocks Eo, now known as Persephone, forcing Darrow to suppress his rage.
Chapter 17: The Draft
Darrow meets several Proctors who represent the Institute’s twelve Houses, including Fitchner of House Mars. Fitchner punches Darrow and threatens to reject him if he retaliates, so Darrow instead kicks him in the shin, amusing Fitchner.
During the Draft, where students are selected for each House, House Mars chooses Darrow tenth overall, with support from powerful figures including the legendary Rage Knight Lorn au Arcos.
Chapter 18: Classmates
Darrow meets several important members of his new house, including Cassius, Antonia, Roque, Titus, Quinn, and Priam.
Darrow nearly provokes Cassius into a duel when he accidentally insults him but manages to defuse the situation using Matteo’s social training. He begins developing friendships while studying the personalities around him.
Despite the luxury of the Institute, Darrow remains troubled knowing his family is still living in poverty beneath Mars and continues carrying Eo’s flower and wedding band with him.
Chapter 19: The Passage
Darrow is dragged from his room and placed inside a stone chamber with Julian au Bellona for an Institute ritual called the Passage.
Fitchner explains that only one of them may leave alive. Julian begs Darrow to surrender, but Darrow realizes that doing so would destroy his mission and finds that the only way forward is to beat Julian to death.
Chapter 20: The House Mars
Darrow learns that while each House began with one hundred students, the strongest fifty are deliberately paired with the weakest fifty so half will be killed. The ritual reinforces the Gold belief that the strong deserve to survive and rule.
Darrow joins the surviving members of House Mars, including Cassius, who is unaware that Darrow has just killed his brother.
Fitchner then explains the Institute’s true purpose. The twelve Houses will wage war across a massive valley, conquering one another. The student who leads House Mars will become Primus, and Darrow resolves to earn the position.
Chapter 21: Our Dominion
Fitchner shows House Mars the valley where the twelve Houses will compete, each controlling its own castle and territory while the Proctors watch from a floating mountain called Olympus.
House Ceres quickly attempts to lure Mars into an ambush with a feast, but Darrow and Cassius defeat and capture the attackers.
Fitchner explains that unlike the Passage, the coming war is about conquest rather than killing. Students must learn to manage armies, resources, laws, and conquered populations.
House standards can turn defeated students into slaves, and Sevro correctly recognizes that the path to victory is to build an army out of the people they conquer, just as the Society itself did.
Chapter 22: The Tribes
Once Fitchner leaves, House Mars immediately fractures over who should lead. Cassius, Titus, Antonia, and Darrow begin forming competing groups while everyone searches the surrounding territory for food, weapons, and other resources.
Darrow deliberately keeps his ability to make fire secret so Titus’s group will struggle.
Mars’s first major capture comes when Vixus, one of Titus’s followers, returns dragging a female prisoner from another House, increasing Titus’s influence.
Chapter 23: Fracture
House Mars divides further, with Darrow and Cassius left leading the lowDraft students known as the dregs. Because Darrow possesses the only matches and knows how to hunt and cook, his group remains fed while Titus’s followers grow hungry and increasingly savage.
Roque urges Darrow to share their resources and reunite Mars, but Darrow refuses to strengthen Titus.
After Titus’s followers attack Lea a member of Darrows group, he tries to convince Vixus to turn against Titus. Instead, Vixus spits in his face and threatens him. Darrow reacts by striking Vixus in the throat, beginning open conflict between the groups.
Chapter 24: Titus’s War
Darrow’s group retreats to a northern fort while Titus turns his attention toward House Ceres. Titus builds his followers into a violent raiding force, taking slaves, burning crops, and increasingly abusing captives.
Cassius begins questioning Titus’s claim about who he killed during the Passage.
Realizing Cassius is getting closer to discovering what happened to Julian, Darrow quietly encourages him to suspect Titus instead.
Chapter 25: Tribal War
After a month, House Mars has deteriorated badly under the internal conflict, while Titus’s treatment of prisoners becomes increasingly disturbing and the Proctors still refuse to intervene.
Darrow attempts to form an alliance with Antonia, sending Quinn as a messenger. Instead, Titus captures Quinn, beats her, and sends one of her ears back to Darrow.
Cassius separately tries to confront Titus according to Gold traditions of honor but is captured, beaten, and humiliated before being released. Humbled, Cassius agrees to follow Darrow’s plan to retake the castle.
Chapter 26: Mustang
While scouting, Darrow and Cassius encounter the golden-haired girl again, who introduces herself as Mustang of House Minerva. She tricks them into revealing information about Mars before calling in a group of Minervan riders.
Darrow and Cassius avoid capture by jumping into a freezing lake, where Sevro eventually comes to rescue them. Sevro reveals that Minerva is attacking the Mars castle, but he had already secretly stolen and hidden Mars’s standard so they cannot completely conquer the House.
Sevro proposes they retaliate by stealing Minerva’s standard. The three infiltrate Minerva’s fortress, start fires and false alarms, steal horses and supplies, and trick the Minervans into evacuating with their standard, allowing Sevro to take it.
Chapter 27: The House of Rage
House Mars uses the stolen Minerva standard to counterattack the Minervans occupying their castle. During the battle, Darrow fights the massive Pax au Telemanus, with both eventually knocking each other unconscious.
Mars captures most of Minerva’s remaining force, leaving Mustang trapped inside the castle with only a handful of fighters.
Mustang demands that Titus be surrendered for the rape and abuse of captives. Darrow refuses to hand over a member of House Mars but argues that the Institute is revealing the Society’s true nature: slaves have no guaranteed justice, and security belongs only to those powerful enough to take it.
Mustang also warns Darrow about a mysterious student called the Jackal, who she believes is smarter and more dangerous than anyone else in the game.
Chapter 28: My Brother
After retaking the castle, Darrow confronts Titus over his crimes. Titus argues that Darrow only became successful because he controlled the food and fire while Titus’s people starved.
When Darrow presses him about his treatment of the captives, Titus reveals his violence came from revenge for someone close to him being assaulted by others.
Darrow then notices Titus using Red expressions like “bloodydamn” and calling his weapon a slingBlade. He realizes Titus is secretly a Red who, like Darrow, was carved into a Gold and planted inside the Institute by the Sons of Ares.
Chapter 29: Unity
Darrow realizes Titus represents exactly what Dancer warned he could become: a Red so consumed by vengeance that he endangers the entire rebellion.
Darrow puts Titus on trial and sentences him to death for his crimes. Titus challenges him to a duel, but Cassius demands to fight instead, believing Titus killed Julian.
Cassius brutally kills Titus while repeatedly accusing him of murdering his brother. Roque later tells Darrow that allowing Cassius to turn the execution into revenge was not justice.
Darrow privately buries Titus as a fellow Red. Fitchner later explains that the Institute is designed to teach the Golds about leadership, psychology, social collapse, and ruling populations. He also reveals that the feared Jackal is actually the son of Nero au Augustus.
Chapter 30: House Diana
A month later, House Mars has grown much stronger under Darrow, while Sevro has transformed the dregs into an elite raiding group known as the Howlers.
Rather than continue the stalemate against Minerva, Darrow decides to change the situation by forming an alliance with House Diana.
While traveling to Diana, Sevro reveals that he knows Darrow killed Julian and recognizes that Darrow possesses skills that do not match his supposedly humble Gold background.
Darrow successfully negotiates with Diana’s leader Tamara: Diana will help Mars conquer Minerva, and afterward Mars will help Diana conquer food-rich House Ceres.
Chapter 31: The Fall of Mustang
Darrow leads House Mars openly toward Minerva while Sevro, the Howlers, and their Diana allies secretly infiltrate the battlefield.
Darrow challenges Pax to another duel. Mustang has the surrounding grass burned to prevent an ambush but does not realize the Howlers are hidden inside the stitched-open bodies of dead horses.
Darrow defeats Pax, signaling the attack. The Howlers burst from the horse carcasses while Diana attacks from the opposite side, quickly conquering Minerva.
Mustang escapes into the woods, pursued by Vixus. Knowing what Vixus does to prisoners, Darrow secretly protects Mustang and leads him away from her hiding place.
Chapter 32: Antonia
House Diana betrays Darrow after Minerva falls and attempts to keep the conquered fortress. Darrow defeats them, and their leader Tamara is killed after her own bodyguard Tactus cuts her saddle.
Cassius officially names Darrow Primus of House Mars.
Soon afterward, Lilath arrives as an emissary of the Jackal and announces that Darrow has been marked for death. She gives Cassius two ionBlades and a mysterious pouch that Darrow suspects contains information about Julian.
Later, Antonia, Vixus, and Cassandra betray Darrow and lure him into the fog. They capture Lea and demand Darrow surrender himself. Darrow refuses, and Antonia kills Lea.
Chapter 33: Apologies
Cassius later tells Darrow that Roque has been badly injured and leads him into the wilderness. Darrow quickly realizes it is a trap.
The pouch from the Jackal contained a recording of Darrow killing Julian during the Passage. Cassius also learned that the Augustus faction deliberately helped arrange Julian’s selection for death because of the Bellona-Augustus feud.
Darrow argues that he had no choice and that the Jackal is manipulating them, but Cassius cannot forgive Darrow for pretending to be his friend while hiding the truth.
They duel beside the river. Darrow is faster, but Cassius’s lifetime of training wins out. He drives an ionBlade through Darrow’s stomach and leaves him bleeding to death in the snow.
Chapter 34: The Northwoods
Mustang finds Darrow and nurses him back to health in a cave. She sings Eo’s Song, showing Darrow that Eo’s message has spread throughout the Society.
While recovering, Mustang teaches Darrow that voluntary loyalty is stronger than slavery or fear. Darrow realizes many of his earlier failures came from trying to control people rather than giving them a reason to follow him.
Fitchner eventually finds Darrow and reveals that the Institute has been rigged for the Jackal. Nero au Augustus bribed and threatened the Proctors to ensure his son wins, and one of them supplied Cassius with the recording of Julian’s death.
Rather than surrender, Darrow decides to defeat the Houses whose Proctors are helping the Jackal, remove those Proctors from the game, and eventually conquer the Jackal himself.
Chapter 35: Oathbreakers
Darrow and Mustang begin rebuilding his army by recruiting oathbreakers and other defeated students. Instead of enslaving them, Darrow offers food, protection, purpose, and freedom.
Because everyone believes Cassius killed him, Darrow begins turning the Reaper into a legend through quick attacks and mysterious appearances.
He eventually climbs the walls of Castle Mars alone and rather than attacking Cassius, he carves the Reaper’s slingBlade symbol throughout the castle and burns the same symbol into the hillside, announcing to everyone that the Reaper is indeed alive.
Chapter 36: A Second Test
Darrow’s growing army captures House Ceres and its valuable bread ovens. He continues freeing rather than enslaving defeated students, earning their voluntary loyalty.
His new leadership is tested when Tactus attempts to rape a prisoner. Darrow sentences Tactus to twenty lashes.
After the punishment, Darrow kneels and demands to be whipped as well, explaining that as the army’s leader, its failures are also his responsibility. Tactus cannot bring himself to strike him, so Pax administers the lashes.
Darrow then embraces Tactus and calls him his blood brother, further convincing his followers that he is offering something different from the Society’s usual rule through fear.
Chapter 37: South
Darrow organizes his army of mostly freed students and marches south against House Apollo, whose Proctor is one of those helping the Jackal.
Rather than fight Apollo’s superior cavalry directly, Darrow uses ambushes and guerrilla tactics to slowly weaken them. Meanwhile, signs appear that invisible Proctors are sabotaging Darrow’s horses and food.
One night, Proctor Apollo uses Mustang’s voice to lure Darrow away from camp. He reveals himself from a ghostCloak and orders Darrow to abandon his campaign.
When Darrow refuses, Apollo throws him toward a giant Carver-created bear intended to kill him.
Chapter 38: The Fall of Apollo
Darrow survives the bear but becomes caught in a snare, where Sevro eventually finds him and officially rejoins his cause.
Sevro reveals that the Jackal has already shown his ruthlessness by collapsing a tunnel on dozens of his own followers rather than risk losing the game.
Darrow surrounds House Apollo and continues attacking its supplies and morale. Proctor Apollo eventually enters Darrow’s camp to threaten his followers, but Darrow publicly reveals that the Proctors are cheating to ensure the ArchGovernor’s son wins.
The confrontation is also a distraction, allowing Sevro and the Howlers to attack Apollo’s fortress. Darrow’s army joins the assault, captures the standard, and eliminates House Apollo despite direct Proctor interference.
With Apollo defeated, Darrow’s followers openly recognize that they are now fighting the Proctors themselves.
Chapter 39: The Proctor’s Bounty
Fitchner returns and explains that Apollo and several other Proctors were promised valuable positions and rewards if they helped the Jackal win, proving the Institute has been corrupted by politics.
Fitchner begs Darrow to stop provoking them before he is killed. During the argument, he accidentally reveals that Sevro is his son and that protecting him is his greatest concern.
Fitchner still refuses to openly help Darrow fight the other Proctors. Darrow thanks him for what help he has provided, then knocks him unconscious and steals his pulseArmor, gravBoots, ghostCloak, razor, and other equipment.
Chapter 40: Paradigm
Darrow then marches through a blizzard to conquer House Jupiter’s starving fortress. A student named Lucian surrenders the remaining defenders in exchange for Darrow promising not to enslave them.
Inside the castle, Darrow stages a drunken celebration while secretly keeping his army prepared for an attack.
After speaking with Lucian, Darrow notices the boy knows information he should not. Darrow then reveals a collection of House rings taken from dead students and points out that he has one from every defeated House except Pluto.
Lucian’s personality immediately changes and Darrow realizes he is actually The Jackal, Adrius au Augustus.
Chapter 41: The Jackal
Darrow pins the Jackal’s hand to a table with his dagger and confronts him. Adrius offers Darrow wealth, military power, and his father’s influence if he allows him to win.
When Darrow refuses to release him, the Jackal begins cutting off his own hand rather than surrender, eventually severing it completely.
The Proctors arrive and create enough confusion for Adrius to attack Pax. The Jackal stabs Pax in the throat, and Pax dies shielding Darrow with his own body.
Darrow and the Howlers pursue Adrius, but Proctor Apollo intervenes and reveals that Mustang has been captured. Apollo prepares to kill Darrow, but Darrow uses Fitchner’s stolen equipment and knifeRing to stab Apollo through his visor and kill him.
With a Proctor dead and Mustang taken, Darrow decides they need to go conquer Olympus itself.
Chapter 42: War on Heaven
Darrow wears Apollo’s stolen armor and gives Sevro the equipment needed to carry the Howlers to Olympus, the floating fortress where the Proctors watch the Institute.
They launch an unprecedented attack on Olympus, capturing several Proctors while searching for Mustang and evidence to prove the Institutes’ corruption.
Darrow battles Proctors Mercury and Jupiter, eventually defeating Jupiter and taking his weapons.
The Howlers locate the Proctors’ armory, allowing Darrow’s forces to equip themselves with more advanced gear. Olympus has fallen, and Mustang is found still alive.
Chapter 43: The Last Test
After rescuing Mustang, Darrow gives her command of part of his army and sends her to find the Jackal and capture his standard. Darrow also has Sevro prepare the Institute’s recordings to expose the Proctors’ cheating to the other Golds.
Fitchner then reveals that Mustang’s true name is Virginia au Augustus and that she is the Jackal’s twin sister. Darrow realizes he has just armed and trusted his enemy’s closest family member.
Darrow races back to Castle Mars, where he confronts Cassius, who formally declares a Blood Feud against Darrow over Julian, meaning one of them must eventually kill the other.
Darrow reclaims the House Mars standard and Primus badge and prepares for the final confrontation with the Jackal.
Chapter 44: Rise
Mustang returns with the Jackal bound and his House Pluto standard captured, revealing that she chose Darrow over her brother. With every House defeated, Darrow has won the Institute.
Sevro successfully transmits evidence showing that Nero au Augustus and the Proctors rigged the competition, creating a major political scandal.
Though Augustus privately approaches Darrow and offers him money, troops, sponsorship to the Academy, access to the Sovereign, and eventually the opportunity to command fleets if he keeps quiet and becomes a lancer of House Augustus.
And although he is the man responsible for Eo’s death, accepting the offer places Darrow exactly where the Sons of Ares need him, inside one of the most powerful families in the Society with a path toward military command.
So Darrow swears himself to Nero au Augustus while privately vowing to use the power he gains to eventually break the Society’s chains.
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