Introduction: On the Fives court, everyone is equal. And everyone is dangerous. Jessamy鈥檚 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 whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom鈥檚 best competitors. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an improbable friendship between the two Fives competitors鈥攐ne of mixed race and the other a Patron boy鈥攃auses heads to turn. When Kal鈥檚 powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes鈥檚 family apart, she鈥檒l have to test her new friend鈥檚 loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death. In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott鈥檚 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....