When Simon Bonaventure breaks the law on his seventeenth birthday, he expects to pay the price.

He doesn't expect his father to pay it instead.

Sentenced in his place. Executed in front of him.

But his father's sacrifice bought him one concession: instead of execution, Simon could enter the Ascent of Angels — a gladiatorial tournament aboard the Exsta, a ring-shaped space station where seven teams fight through seven brutal ecosystems for the right to join the ruling class. Except for his team: The Fallen. In 200 hundred years, no team from the Fallen — criminals, outcasts, the condemned — has ever come close.

They're not there to compete. They're there as a warning.

Simon's team doesn't have the training, the connections, or the protection to win. They are six strangers brought from six enemy sections of the ship, raised to hate each other.

Round by round, the elite teams cheat. The ship's rulers rigs the game. And somewhere beneath the spectacle, a two-hundred-year-old secret is surfacing. The only thing nobody accounted for: enemies who overcome their hatred and start becoming family.

Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Red Rising, this dystopian sci-fi thriller delivers brutal competition, class warfare, a found family worth dying for, and one boy’s fight against impossible odds.

The Fallen have risen. The real game is just beginning