: To hide this "impossibility," the King forces her to masquerade as a lost Silver princess, Mareena Titanos , and betroths her to his youngest son, Maven .

: While living a lie in the palace, Mare secretly joins the Scarlet Guard , a Red resistance movement determined to dismantle the Silver regime. Key Themes

In Victoria Aveyard's , the world is split by the color of blood: the elite Silvers , gifted with superhuman abilities, and the common Reds , who serve them. The Core Premise