BOOK #1

17 year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for
survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as
the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is
charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long
enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal- a series of elemental
challenges against the torments of air, fire, water and earth, assigned to
only the dangerous criminals. Then a coded message from Kiva's family
arrives, containing a single order- Don't let her die. We are coming. Aware
that the Trials will kill the queen, Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in
her place. If she succeeds, both she and the queen will be granted their
freedom. But no one has ever survived. With an incurable plague sweeping
Zalindov, a new inmate fighting for Kiva's heart, and a prison rebellion
brewing, Kiva can't escape the feeling that her trials have only just begun.