The Rise of Nine is a young adult teen fiction novel by Pittacus Lore and the third novel in "The Lorien Legacies". It is published by HarperCollins, & was released on August 21, 2012, in the US and by Penguin on August 30, 2012 in the UK. It is the first book in the series to be written after Jobie Hughes left the project.
The first book that Jobie Hughes was on board with was The Rise of Nine which got released in 2012.