Dave Madole: 3 books

Bloodied and beaten, Ardent wanders in a wasteland. The heat is oppressive, the desert endless. His chances for survival are slim. Betrayed, abandoned, he wonders if resistance was worth the hurt he caused. Maybe he should have listened. Maybe he should have obeyed: pretended to be happy, completed...

An army under his command, Ardent  abandons the Canyonlands in order to set the Keep free. Once again, the Color River serves as his guide. Its familiar currents and bends carry him and his new-found friends closer to war. Winding through a wilderness of broken bridges and ghost towns, Ardent...

Surrounded by Extinction, the Keep is enclosed within a fifty foot wall. Only desert and destruction exist beyond. Inside this lone fortress, the Council of Constraint controls everything: curfew, clothes, career, names... In return for surrendering  freedom, citizens receive survival. Most don't...