The badlands of North Philadelphia are no place for a girl to call home, yet Themis spends her days on the streets, under the protection of the Assassini, the notorious street gang. She works toward her initiation, the day that a vow will seal the rest of her life in blood.
She knows she is tough—at thirteen, she is the youngest member of the Assassini—but when she meets Julia, a social-care worker looking for a fresh start to escape her own past, Themis' outer shell begins to peel, revealing a girl who is vulnerable, weak—desperate.
When a knife is placed in her hand along with instructions to kill Julia—the initiation she so wanted—her world shatters along the faultlines of two choices, each that will challenge both the life she knows and the life she wants to lead.
COMING SOON
Genre: CONTEMPORARY
Category: TEEN/YA