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Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives - the complex athletic contest favored by the lowliest Commoners and the loftiest Patrons alike. Pitted against far more formidable adversaries, success is Jes' only option, as her prize money is essential to keeping her hidden family alive. She leaps at the chance to tour the countryside and face more competitors, but then a fatal attack on her traveling party puts Jes at the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos - the prince she still loves - is fighting against their country's enemies.

The first time Tucker saw the disk, his father disappeared into thin air. The Reverend Adrian Feye had climbed onto the roof to fix a loose shingle - and suddenly he was gone. An hour later, the Reverend came walking up the road, tattered and sunburned, bringing with him an unspeaking, yellow-haired, dark-eyed girl. He refused to say where he had been, instead declaring that there would be no more prayer in the Feye house: He had lost his faith. Now Tucker’s family is unraveling.

Compared to life on tour with her wannabe rock star mother, finishing high school in the dull town of Rye is a snooze. At least, Roxy has her best friend, Zoë, her doting dad, and her music. When her standoffish civics class partner, Jagger, breaks rank and randomly friends her on Instagram, Roxy’s sure that it must be a joke. Jag Monroe is Roxy's total opposite: stinking rich, conceited, and hot in that obvious kind of way.