Ninth city burning, paperback/j. patrick black

For fans of Enders Game , Red Rising , and The Hunger Games comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut.

Cities vanished, gone in flashes of world-shattering destruction.

An alien race had come to make Earth theirs, bringing a power so far beyond human technology it seemed like magic.

It was nearly the end of the world--until we learned to seize the power, and use it to fight back.

The war has raged for five centuries.

For a cadet like Jax, one of the few who can harness the enemys universe-altering force, that means growing up in an elite military academy, training for battle at the front--and hoping he is ready.

For Naomi, young nomad roaming the wilds of a ruined Earth, it means a daily fight for survival against the savage raiders who threaten her caravan.

When a new attack looms, these two fledging warriors find their paths suddenly intertwined.

Together with a gifted but reckless military commander, a factory worker drafted as cannon fodder, a wild and beautiful gunfighter, and a brilliant scientist with nothing to lose--they must find a way to turn back the coming invasion, or see their home finally and completely destroyed.