Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides? A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.Ĭheckmate, Book 3, like new: Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered.

But her baby daughter has a nought father. Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. Knife Edge, Book 2, like new: WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES. Can they possibly find a way to be together? Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger.

In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don’t mix. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that’s as far as it can go. Callum is a Nought - a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses.

Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Noughts & Crosses, Book 1, good condition: Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society. The following 4 paperbacks are in the pack:

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