In this imaginative escape into enthralling new lands, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliotts first young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. Jessamys life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family she can be whoever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdoms best contenders. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between two Fives competitors--one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy--causes heads to turn. When Kals powerful, scheming uncle tears Jess family apart, shell have to test her new friends loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.
