num_pages: 384
description: The world is at peace said the Utterances. And really if the odd princess has a hard day is that too much to ask?Greta is a duchess and crown princessand a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the worlds leaders. Like them she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them she is prepared to die with dignity if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Elin is a boy who refuses to play by the rules a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Gretas eyes to the brutality of the system they live underand to her own power.As Greta and Elin watch their nations tip closer to war Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them bothunless she can find a way to break all the rules.
language: English
title: The Scorpion Rules
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books