Announcing LIGHT BRINGER by Pierce Brown

21st Jun 2025

Darrow, with medal on his right breast, looking to the orange sky, with white scarves trailing behind

We’re thrilled to continue Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga with Light Bringer, which is now open for general preordering.  

Sam Burley continues with the illustrations for Light Bringer. In addition to the full-color cover, he's contributed four full-color interior plates 

About the Book:

We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures.  

Born deep beneath the surface of Mars, Darrow has now led an army across interplanetary space in an epic war for freedom and liberty. But all wars, even a war of righteous revolution, leave the dead and disheartened scattered in their wake. 

Light Bringer is the penultimate book in the greatest science fiction saga of the 21st century, having garnered author Pierce Brown multiple Goodreads Reader Choice Awards and a much-deserved number one ranking on the New York Times bestseller list. 

In this novel, the boy born in a mineshaft has arisen to a warlord’s rank, leading to years of tumult and pain. Darrow and his companions—and his enemies—are somehow still in the fight. Wounded and weary, there is nothing ahead but more trials. But trials, Darrow has faced before. 

The internal conflict he feels is mirrored in the war-torn solar system, with countless lives spent in the pursuit of better worlds for all. But the corrupt color-ranked society that sparked the greatest revolution in human history has not been fully wiped out. Is such a thing even possible? Is it even desirable? 

In Light Bringer, Pierce Brown offers readers a further entry in the magnificent Red Rising saga. Battles with swords and starships, political machinations with unknowable intentions, and the resilience of the human heart are all mixed together in a cauldron that will not be stirred down.