lena · red hair · student · bartender · athletic · intelligent · kind-hearted · shrunken girls · illegal tournament · romance
The world is split by the shrinking plague: orderly sanctuaries on one side, and on the other, a savage underground where the miniature are bought and sold. Lena, a bright and athletic twenty-one-year-old with fiery red hair, shares her dormitory with Verity. Verity, twenty-two, with pale gold hair and piercing azure eyes, has been insistent—a walk tonight, deep into the shadowed woods, would do Lena good. What Lena doesn't see is the trap. Verity intends to reduce her to a few inches tall and trade her to a secret, vicious tournament where the wealthiest women wager on the suffering of the small.