Resurgent: Book Nine in The Borrowed World Series

Resurgent is the ninth book in The Borrowed World Series. The author notes that between the previous book and this one, characters encounter Mad Mick in Mad Mick 7 - ULTRAVIOLET, with that encounter summarized in the prologue. Jim Powell has spent a year wrestling with guilt and indecision following a national disaster. Years earlier, he had wished for a catastrophic reset to purge the nation of weakness. As the disaster unfolded, he watched people around him suffer and die, and he harbored shame over whether his desires had somehow caused the suffering. He also felt direct responsibility for violent actions he had taken, including destroying a local power plant, which led the government to label him an insurgent and turned many in his community against him. To protect his family, Jim faked his death and went into self-exile, traveling the mountains with his friend Lloyd to regain clarity. Now resolved, he emerges with a new plan. He will no longer hide or keep a low profile. Instead, he intends to eliminate those who threaten his family and turn his neighbors against him, embracing what he believes is his true nature.