Jaya is unlike any fifteen-year old girl you know. Poor and fatherless, her pickpocketing skills helped keep the family together and alive for the first few difficult years. When an encounter with a former pickpocket victim goes awry, Jaya finds herself in the royal palace. She accidently discovers a dark secret kept under wraps for decades. As punishment, she is forced to fight in the deadly gladiator pits. As fate would have it, she survives only to be pitted against the one and only Beast, the undefeated gladiator champion, masked and mysterious. But when another secret is spilled, can Jaya survive the consequences of the truth?