Vera Ogneva is the creative pseudonym of a young author of science fiction novels. The writer is a nominee for the Interpresscon and New Horizons awards, winner of the literary competitions Revolution NEXT, Russian Science Fiction 2017 and GoWest. The novel When Mars Awakens is the second book in the New Rome duology, written at the intersection of genres : action, science fiction and cyberpunk. Distant future. Earth and other inhabited planets are under the rule of the Empire, the high-tech successor to Ancient Rome. The masters of life are the patricians, and the plebeians don’t even always have names. The main character did not have a name either. It was called by its number - I45. But only until she learned the truth about herself. It turned out that the girl is a child of the Immanes tribe, aliens from other planets, and has unique abilities that can bring the entire empire to its knees. An attempt to destroy the heroine in the previous book failed, and now she will return back to take revenge. For myself and the one I lost. How will the immanes invasion of the empire turn out? A new meeting with all the heroes of the first book and the denouement of this fascinating story awaits you.