“For the good of all, we give ourselves.” At least that’s how the mantra goes. Everyone knows the refrain. Everyone responds like it’s no big deal. But Ren seriously doubts how killing off the people who are different is good for anyone, especially when she’s got a difference of her own she’s hiding.

Freshly graduated from the Castle Raising Home, Ren must navigate her new life in the Protectorate by keeping a low profile, blending in with the masses, and guarding a secret that could cost her life. Not getting noticed is easier said than done when a strange glowing boy keeps intruding on her thoughts and getting her in trouble. New life in the villages gets easier when she finds a confidante in Owen, a handsome guide with his own secrets. But he breaks her heart when she discovers he was only working an angle to get to the boy.

Owen’s betrayal sends her on a path beyond the boundaries of the Protectorate and into a world she never knew existed—a place where children know their parents, the sick and different are allowed to live, and the secret she’s been hiding is considered a gift.

Book 1 of the The Silver Rim series.