Kick the year off with an action-packed conversation with Namina Forna, author of the New York Times Best Selling The Gilded Ones Series. An epic fantasy trilogy in which a young heroine fights against a world that would dare tame her, sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear of the blood ceremony that will determine her future. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold instead of red, the color of impurity–and Deka is offered the choice to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her or face a consequence worse than death.