Rebel's Creed
Lawful Times • Book 2
by Daniel B. Greene
Why You'll Love This
An empire built on a single myth is a fragile thing — and one officer is about to find out exactly how fragile.
- Great if you want: gritty fantasy where faith and loyalty collide violently
- The experience: lean and fast-paced — Greene wastes no words at 263 pages
- The writing: Greene favors sharp, direct prose over ornate world-building flourishes
- Skip if: you haven't read book one — context here is thin
About This Book
In a world where an empire's peace rests entirely on the architecture of a lie, the cost of truth is catastrophic. Rebel's Creed follows Holden Sanders, a man carrying the weight of survival through unimaginable loss, as he inches toward a revelation that could unravel everything—including his own faith. Daniel B. Greene isn't interested in simple good-versus-evil binaries here; the emotional core is a soldier wrestling with loyalty to an institution he's beginning to suspect never deserved it. That tension, between devotion and doubt, gives the story a psychological urgency that outlasts any single action scene.
Greene writes with a tight economy that suits the book's compact length—263 pages that move without waste, letting atmosphere and implication do the heavy lifting rather than endless exposition. As the second entry in the Lawful Times series, it rewards readers who've followed the world's mythology from the start, deepening its theological framework in ways that feel genuinely unsettling rather than decorative. The prose stays lean and purposeful, and the moral ambiguity Greene builds into every institution on the page makes this a story that lingers after the final chapter closes.
