Mare Barrow'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.rnThe crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.rnPursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.rnBut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.rnWill she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?rnThe electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalate the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known-and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.