A Griffin’s wings will only take them part way. Hope has a price and it’s never paid by the people who promise it. Before he was Player 197, he was just an ignominious son, discarded and burdened with an impossible task. A prince without a country. A weapon without a choice. A griffin without wings. The Masquerade is over. But the games are not. Raven has escaped, but at what cost? Torn from her Sparrow and ripped from her first love, Raven is taken far from Violencia to a different country entirely. Here, she isn’t a victor or a weapon. She’s cherished. Protected. Controlled. Watched. They tell her she’s lucky. That she’s safe. That she belongs to them now. But something is wrong. There are no women in the streets. No mothers. No children. Only hollow reverence and unanswered questions. The longer Raven stays, the more she realizes this place doesn’t save women like her… It collects them.