She trusts her guts and stays with her mission until she is able to return to the Scarlet Guard with two new recruits: Shade Barrow and his sister Mare Barrow, both of whom have special abilities invaluable to the Guard. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, this 100-page digital original prequel novella follows Scarlet Guard leader Captain Farley as she. She hopes that she will be able to successfully complete the mission and prove that she is a serious soldier, especially to her father.Īlthough Farley is making progress in creating contact points with Reds in the city of Corvium, she is ordered to return to base, an order that she ignores. She has been given her first independent mission. Steel Scars is written by Victoria Aveyard and published by HarperTeen. Farley both respects and hates her father.

Farley believes conscription, as well as the constant fighting between different groups of Silvers, is part of a plan to exterminate the Reds.įarley fights for the cause of the Scarlet Guard alongside her father, a Colonel in the Guard, whose codename is Ram. Farley and her soldiers have seen families torn apart because of conscription.

a member of the Scarlet Guard, a ground of Reds working to overthrow the Silvers. She was raised to be strong, but planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected-until she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation: Mare Barrow. Her story is completely different from Coriane’s because it gives a look at the feud between the Reds and Silvers from the viewpoint of those being abused. Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance as she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital. In Steel Scars, the second novella, Diana Lamb Farley is a member of the Scarlet Guard, a group of Reds working to overthrow the Silvers.

Steel Scars by Victoria Aveyard