For: Midori
Plot: “Misfortune loves me and bad luck is my best friend.” Vera Patterson has had a hard life. After watching her mother die in a duel at the hands of Chaos, Vera swears that she will have revenge. Now at nearly fourteen years old Vera is an orphan and suffers through grueling days under the merciless hand of The Matron, a half-human creature who rules the roost at the orphanage. In a twist of fate she escapes with Teal, a boy who has lived at the orphanage ever since he was five. Shortly after joining an elite vigilante group, The Fray, and befriending Emily, the daughter of one of The Council's top scientists, they discover that a murderer is within their midst and make it their goal to find the elusive killer. With friends, enemies, a list of possible suspects and a string of secrets to be found about herself and the world around her, Vera sets off on a quest for vengeance and revolution.