Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pawn | 2013 | Aimee Carter | Buy |
| 2 | Captive | 2014 | Aimee Carter | Buy |
| 3 | Queen | 2015 | Aimee Carter | Buy |
In Aimee Carter’s dystopian world, every person is ranked at age seventeen, and that number determines the rest of their life. Kitty Doe gets a III, which means a life of manual labor or worse. Then she’s offered an impossible deal: surgery to become the physical double of the Prime Minister’s niece, who is secretly dying. Pawn (2013) sets up the deception, and things unravel from there.
The trilogy follows Kitty as she navigates a dangerous political world where everyone has an agenda and trust is a liability. The Blackcoat resistance movement offers hope, but their methods aren’t always clean. Carter keeps the stakes personal even as the rebellion grows in scale, with Kitty caught between loyalty, survival, and doing what’s right.