Phoenix Rising is the second chapter in the Icarus Trilogy, the tale of Ryan Jenkins and the Crows.

Most people on Earth and her nine daughters watch War World and just think it's the best sporting event of all time. The Eris Freedom Initiative wants to change that, but the system in place is oppressive and far-reaching.

Above all of them stands War World Entertainment, the company responsible for Eris, where the soldiers die painfully only to be reborn into another cycle of hellish combat. These corporate masters now promote Ryan Jenkins as a hero, but the man dying on those screens is not the same boy from New Chicago.

Behaviorally-modified, he has become a sociopath who enjoys killing, a hero for all the wrong reasons. That's why the Eris Freedom Initiative is planning to bring the real Ryan Jenkins back.

But can humanity rely on a man who killed himself?