Volunteers (The Repatriate Protocol, #3)

The fate of a village is a hard thing to decide.Gibson is the only son of the First Family of “externals”—the first generation of settlers to live outside the mountain in hundreds of years. As a future village leader, his destiny seems set in stone. But when a string of bad decisions and misfortune end in violent tragedy, Gibson grows close to the recently-widowed Monica, and a forbidden romance begins to bloom.There’s just one problem—Monica is sterile, and Gibson cannot lead the village if he cannot produce an heir.When Gibson’s newlywed sister, Rita, discovers she is pregnant, sibling rivalry abounds as they wrestle for leadership of the village, resulting in a bloody tug-of-war.Meanwhile, the threat from the mountain-dwelling “internals” looms ever closer, and the villagers must decide whether to continue their nomadic lifestyle and move on—or take up arms against the internals and fight for their home.Things are not always as they seem in Volunteers, the third installment of the high-octane Repatriate Protocol series by Kelli Kimble.