Empire

Its place in Chronicles of the Invaders

Empire is book 2 in the Chronicles of the Invaders series. It follows Conquest. It is followed by Dominion. See the full Chronicles of the Invaders reading order.

Chronicles of the Invaders is a young-adult science fiction trilogy co-written by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard, set on an Earth conquered decades earlier by the Illyri, a technologically superior alien species that now rules the planet through a mix of military occupation and uneasy cooperation with human collaborators. Syl Hellais, the Illyri governor's daughter, has grown up believing her people's rule is basically benign, until direct contact with the human resistance -- and with Paul Kerr, a young…