The Only

M.S. Duirham's YA dystopian debut follows a girl raised as a goddess and destined for sacrifice, and the one sent to assassinate her before the regime can. Set in a world of celebrity, glittering competition, and rebellion for fans of The Hunger Games and The Selection.

Every rebel was a traitor first.

For generations, the corporation has ruled through the power of one girl: the Only. Crowned the living embodiment of a goddess as a child, she is adored by all until being publicly beheaded on her seventeenth birthday—sacrificed and replaced by another girl—to keep the goddess's wrath at bay.

The reigning Only, sixteen-year-old Juno, has spent her life preparing to die and never questioned her fate. Until her best friend whispers in her ear, "They’re lying to you, Juno," before disappearing.

On the outskirts of the city, orphaned Sparrow has struggled to survive under the corporation’s iron grip. When she’s chosen to compete in a televised pageant for a coveted place in the Only’s glamorous inner circle, she can’t refuse. But Sparrow has secrets of her own, and a growing rebellion wants her to assassinate Juno before her Sacrifice, shattering the myth that keeps the corporation in power.

As their lives become dangerously entwined, Juno and Sparrow discover that the greatest threat to their world isn’t the anger of a goddess, but the treacherous truth that could unleash a revolution.

One girl raised to die. One girl chosen to kill her.