 
      
          Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . . 
 
Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?
        
      
        
          
        
    Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?
