The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I made it to school on time but barely. I had a habit of cutting things close.

Girls like me were supposed to be invisible. We didn’t get summoned for sit-downs with the principal. We made exactly as much trouble as we could afford to make, which in my case was none.

“I didn’t cheat.” I said calmly. “I studied.”

That mother-faxer.

“You know me, Maxine. I always land on my feet.”