Young Adult Fiction Ages 12-17 Jessamys life is a balance between acting like an upper class patron and dreaming of the freedom of the commoners. But at night she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdoms best competitors. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between a girl of mixed race and a patron boy causes heads to turn. When a scheming lord tears Jess family apart, shell have to test Kals loyalty and risk the vengeance of a powerful clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.,
