Remnants

They broke her to remake her. They broke him to erase him. Zach survived the labor yards and the brutality of the Rustclads-but survival has left him scarred and trapped beneath the rule of a leader who knows far more than he should. As violence becomes a tool of control, Zach is forced to endure trials meant not to break him, but to remake him. Nora's fate is far worse. Taken by the Ascendancy, she is stripped of her past through calculated reconditioning designed to turn memory into obedience. Every truth is questioned. Every emotion is weaponized. To survive, Nora must decide what she is willing to forget-and what she is willing to lose. As rebellion stirs and forgotten tribes rise, the distance between Zach and Nora becomes more than physical. In a world built on control and erasure, identity itself becomes an act of defiance. Remnants: The Forsaken is the dark second installment in the Remnants trilogy, continuing a dieselpunk dystopian saga of memory, oppression, and survival in a fractured world.