The mesmerising New York Times bestseller! Eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king each year. It’s the highest honour they could hope for. and the most demeaning. This year, there’s a ninth. And instead of paper, she’s made of fire. ‘A timely reminder that, in the right hands, the fantasy genre has things to say about injustice and abuse of power in the real world’ GuardianLei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikehara. Ten years ago, her mother was snatched by the royal guards, and her fate remains unknown.