Author(s): Malorie Blackman

Fiction

Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father-Jude is a nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered-Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?