Jason Barlow Rise of the Phoenix

The world has fallen. An empire has ascended from the rubble. A century of war and chaos has led to this very moment. Since birth, Blaine was raised in an Eastern Imperial prison camp somewhere in what used to be the northwestern United States. When he escapes after surviving an experimental procedure that alters his genetic makeup, he his discovered by a small band of soldiers from the American Southern Republic, a small union of southern states who have managed to hold back the Imperial advance and have begun to push back against the invasion. As Blaine learns more about the world outside the gates of camp priority, he stumbles upon a plan that may alter the course of the war. Pressured by his own conscience and the beaten group of soldiers, he is determined to join the resistance and fight back against the powers that made him what he is.