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Victory is the only option

nce a year, the Olympian Empresses grant the wishes of ten people SCHWARTZ
Oselected by a lottery—for a price. Seventeen-year-old Gen, a former circus
performer, wants the freedom of her father, who was sentenced to life in
prison for murders she knows he didn’t commit. Castor plans to carry the
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island Arcadia into the future in place of her brother, Pollux, but only after the
Empresses force a change in her island’s archaic laws that require a male heir.
To get what they want, Gen and Castor must race to complete the better
half of ten nearly impossible labors. They have to catch the fastest ship in the
sea, slay the immortal Hydra, defeat a gangster called the Boar, and capture
the flesh-eating Mares, among other deadly tasks.
Gen has her magic, her ability to speak to animals, her inhuman
strength—and the help of Pollux, who’s been secretly pining for her for
years. But Castor has her own gifts: the power of the storms, along with
endless coin. Only one can win. The other walks away with nothing—if she
walks away at all. Before We Were Blue

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