Imagine a city of perfection. No homeless, no work, no currency, no rulers, no need to do anything. Basically a utopia for almost everyone. Now imagine a place of torture just outside of those walls. Starvation. Cannabilism. This place is for the people who have ever killed. But some innocent people live there, too. This is a story of two men, one anxious for a way out of his dull life in a paradise, and another wanting to run to safety, and out of the place of danger, and these two men somehow meet in the middle. (I'm sorry I suck at descriptions. Almost everyone does.) CHARACTERS NOT MINE. THEY BELONG TO RICK RIORDAN. The cover belongs to me though. Mine. And also in this AU they are not demigods, they have mortal parents.

The Kingdom of Eshonder was separated by magic. There were Gifteds, gifted and skilled with magic, passed down through generations, then those who were Ungifted, serving the Gifteds. Roane, an orphan, lives with her younger brother as Ungifteds. Trained as a street thief her whole life, Roane was an expert on never getting caught. Except.....once. She got caught on the biggest job she had taken on. A twist of fate entangles Roane within Gifteds. Royalty, drama, and betrayal drags Roane into a deadly and vicious dance. With her head on the line, Roane fights to survive. Will she make it through?