AustLit

'After escaping the presidential palace, Carmen Escobedo is trapped on war-torn Vistaria. She shelters with a rogue resistance unit led by a medical doctor with a mountainous chip on his shoulder, and no time for Carmen’s city-soft sensibilities. Neither does he care that she’s the daughter of the assassinated President of Vistaria.

'Garrett Blackburn is scarred, scruffy and indifferent to anything but the need to pay back the pain and suffering in his life in a very big way. But he pummels, trains and molds Carmen into a good fighter for the sake of the unit…or so he says.

'While the Loyalists try to coax the United States into supporting them, the Insurrectos secretly extract silver from a United States-owned mine, and use it to buy themselves support. Carmen and Garrett learn about the silver and pass the news to the Loyalists and the American corporation which owns the mine. Suddenly, the outcome of the war against the Insurrectos hinges on one simple silver mine, and who controls it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.