Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. "Voy en busca d un Gran quizá," Miles se siente fascinado por esta ultimas palabras del escritor Francois Rabelais. Aburrido de su mono̓tona existencia, inicia su propia búsquéda y se muda a Alabama par terminar la preparatoria en el internado...

Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until a twist of fate brings her to the Silver court. Here, surrounded by the people she hates most, Mare discovers that despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly ability of her own. Fearful of Mare's potential, the king hides her...