Paperback|432 pagesFrom Australias #1 best-selling YA author Lynette Nonicomes a dark, thrilling YA fantasy about Kiva, a girl forced to heal prisoners of war who must wager her life in a series of deadlyelemental trials, all to save the rebel force’s queen.Perfect for fans ofSarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.

Everyone who goes to Zalindov dies. Everyone, that is, except Kiva.
Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has been waiting for a chance to escape Zalindov ever since she was forced to be the prison healer. When prisoners like the rebel Queen Tilda and the broken, mysterious new boy, Jaren, arrive at the prisons gates, Kiva is the one to carve numbers into their flesh so their bodies can be identified when they dieas all prisoners inevitably do. The only solace Kiva finds is in the sporadic coded messages her family sends her.
But when a message arrives from her sister linking Kivas freedom to the dying rebel queen, Kiva is forced to wager her own life in exchange for Tildasin the Trial by Ordeal: a series of deadly, elemental tests that will mean withstanding the torments of air, water, fire, and earth.Dont let her die, the message says. We are coming. ButKivas time is running out. Tilda is dying. And despite the help of her endearing assistant, Tipp, and the mysterious Jaren, Kiva cant escape the terrible feeling that the trials areonly the beginning of the horrors Zalindov has in store for her.