The Court Trials

two hundred years ago, war ravaged the world. Millions died. In a way to protect the people, Pona was created. Peace of National Alliance. A wall was built around the survivors for their protection from the damaged world.

But poverty and crime riddles Pona. A rebellion is burrowing into the roots of the society. One seeking equalty, truth, and justice. A rebellion called The Firebirds. In a world where living is split in levels of wealth, the rebellion is growing every day.

Eighteen year old Blythe Root had been raising her younger sister in The Slums since she was fourteen when her mother disappeared. She would do anything to keep her sister alive, even steal. When she is caught stealing a pig leg from the butcher, she is sentenced to death, but she is granted the opportunity to live. She just has to make it through the court trials, a deadly maze of obstacles created by Pona leaders to thin out the population of criminals.

She's swooped up by her representative, Cyrus Walker and his second in command, Liam Emmett. And she is sent to Pona Center to train where she meets the other sixty convicts she is to compete against, including the icy eyed scared boy named Colter Jacobson.

Sent into the trials with only a pack of supplies, she is determined to beat the trials and return to her little sister. Blythe is willing to break in order to win.