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So anyways it's about this guy named Jon who lives in the outskirts of the city-state of Twyllo with his uncle, a man named Marcus who owns a tavern. 6 years before, when he was 14, his sister was tried and executed for inciting a rebellion, and his sister's now-cynical lover joins him in planning a full scale rebellion. So Jon, Oliver (his sister's boyfriend), Ansel (a 13 yo streetsweeper who Jon takes in), Marcus, Darius (a higher ranking member of Victory Court, the wealthy section, who wants to end all of the corruption in the government), Therese (Oliver's kid sister) and Kira (an orphaned teen girl) plot this rebellion at Marcus's tavern. The Duchess, who is in reality a Queen but is titled as a Duchess due to her family's tradition, hosts a giant ball to celebrate the beginning of summertime, and to keep an eye on all of the citizens in one night. Jon attends, and meets Peggy Lewis. Peggy is fairly well known, but not for herself if that makes since, she's famous because of her sister Amira who is one of the Duchess's right hand men of sorts, and for being Ilona Tobit's ex girlfriend, since Ilona was tired of living in Twyllo and fled the country. And they have a meetcute, and then we meet Nich Fox, a traveling thief/con artist, and his cousins, Nell (who is sweet and kind) and Joan (who is icy and kind of pessimistic). Nich gets arrested for theft and taken to jail, leaving Nell and Joan to fend for themselves. The next day, Samuel Shafton (the Duchess's speechwriter/messenger) delievers a new decree, and Therese gets into a fight with him (it's one-sided because he doesn't try to fight back). This predictably gets her sent to jail, where she and Nich escape custody together. Then Jon and Peggy start to interact more and start to fall in love, but Peggy doesn't realize how much she likes him until he leaves with a lot of others to stage a full-scale rebellion, with fights and stuff. Samuel is sent into the rebellion as a spy for the Duchess as a punishment of sorts for not defending her name when Therese slandered them both. She severely screws up his ankle and essentially leaves him to be found by Joan, who has found her way into the rebellion as a recon agent. They become friends (and possibly more) as they try to get back with the rebellion together. Meanwhile, Nich and Therese are cornered by Nich's ex-friend Mourton, who shoots Nich and is killed by Therese. They manage to make it back to the rebellion, where Therese meets Nell, who is now a medic, and falls in love with her. Jon and Oliver are trying to run the rebellion, but Darius is continuing to get more disillusioned with the rebellion, and eventually leaves, but to retrieve his secret girlfriend Winifred from Twyllo since he knows she is being abused by the Duchess (emotionally and by being locked in a room all day). He's caught and interrogated by Helena Nicolet, one of the Duchess's top soldiers, and sent back. The others are also getting a bit disillusioned, and this reaches its peak when Jon is captured and held as a hostage by the Duchess's troops for killing Amira (he didn't he was set up by Helena). Peggy rescues him and they make it back together, and she realizes that she loves him.
