<p><b>&quot;Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?&quot;</b><b></b><br><b>My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: &quot;If I don't do it, who else will?&quot;</b></p><p>An entire country has been lied to.</p><p>Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privileged few, chosen to serve and help rebuild a shattered nation.</p><p>Instead, she is a rebel.</p><p>Tales of her defiance have spread across the land. King Victor and the Minister Prime want her dead, the resistance groups are desperate for her help.</p><p>But Silver's friends and family are in dire jeopardy; hiding is no longer an option.</p><p>As her travels take her into the far reaches of an unknown land, she is forced to make new friends and hunt for new allegiances.</p><p>Final battle lines are being drawn. The time has come.</p><p>Then there's the hardest choice of all: Opie or Imrin.</p>