If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. Mare's blood is red - the color of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and- Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of