Private Wars. Charmed Company 2181, #2

When Xander Susu walks back into the community that raised him, he's walking into occupied territory. DARCI has been there for months, and the pacifist people of Ephra'im Levi won't fight back. He doesn't go in alone. The Charmed Company follows - Tobias, Trevor, Five, Nick, Uxue, and Airdrie - each with their own reasons for being there, not all of them spoken aloud. The mission is to free the community.
But between the enemy outside the wire and the questions inside it - who can be trusted, who has already broken that trust, and what exactly is holding this group together when everything falls apart - liberation is only part of what's at stake. Nobody believes in magic. That's never stopped it. Private Wars is the second book in the Charmed Company 2181 series.