Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother & a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors & those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy her mother has told Rose virtually nothing about her father but as Rose grows into a young adult she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage & becomes determined to find out more. But her father's family has a complicated history
- one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. & as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy & into this world she finds herself drawn inexorably into more & more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner.. . The powerful third story in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.