FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAYS presents Gilded Ones by Namina Forna. Sixteen year old Deka longs to be accepted by her people and be of pure red blood. During the Purity Ritual she finds that her blood runs gold. Deka must now choose to either succumb to death by her people or leave and fight in an army for the emperor. As she learns about her people and the enemy they are fighting, she begins to questions the truths she’s always known.
