Notes

Callie Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferior and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against prejudice. Rose's mother has told her virtually nothing about her father, but when she discoveres the truth she is drawn into a deadly game. The third novel in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.

Award: the first book of this trilogy, Noughts & Crosses, won the Children's Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award, and the Lancashire Children's Book Award.