Every year, a lottery is held to select sixty teens to be given the honor of becoming Jewels and dedicating their lives to the king. Being a Jewel isn't all parades and looking pretty, though. The Kingdom of Banne sits on the edge of revolution and this newest class will be called to battle too soon.

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Onyx spent her life in service to the elemental spirit, Isa, before learning she was to become a Jewel and must now find a way to merge her peaceful heart with the violence of a soldier.

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She isn't the only unlikely Jewel, though; the royal prince, third in line for the crown and not seen in a decade, walks among them. It's a good thing no one recognizes him after so long because the looming revolution has painted a target on his back just as surely as it has his father.

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It will take everything Isa's gentle child and the hidden prince have to become a Jewel with both body and soul intact.