Silver Blackthorn Trilogy

The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy is a series written by Kerry Wilkinson. The Silver Blackthorn Series takes place in the United Kingom, without Scotland, years after a war in a country now called St George.

The series has three books:
 * 1) RECKONING
 * 2) RENEGADE
 * 3) RESURGENCE

RECKONING
Main Article: Reckoning

"One girl. One chance. One destiny.

'' In the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorne takes the Reckoning. This coming-of- age test not only decides her place in society – Elite, Member, Inter or Trog – but also determines that Silver is to become an Offering for King Victor.But these are uncertain times and no one really knows what happens to the teenagers who disappear into Windsor Castle. Is being an Offering the privilege everyone assumes it to be, or do the walls of the castle have something to hide? Trapped in a maze of ancient corridors, Silver finds herself in a warped world of suspicion where it is difficult to know who to trust and who to fear. The one thing Silver does know is that she must find a way out. . . The heart-stopping first book in a new trilogy by UK author Kerry Wilkinson, Reckoning is the story of one girl's determination to escape the whims of a cruel king, and what she must do to survive against all odds." -Goodreads

 

RENEGADE
Main Article: Renegade

"The stakes are raised in the second novel of Kerry Wilkinson's Silver Blackthorn Trilogy, Renegade. Silver Blackthorn is on the run. All she really wants is to be reunited with her family and friends but the time for thinking about herself has passed. Now the fates of eleven other teenagers are in her hands - and they are all looking to her for a plan. With an entire country searching for the escaped Offerings, Silver is under pressure to keep them all from the clutches of the Minister Prime, King Victor and the Kingsmen. As expectations are piled upon the girl with the silver streak in her hair, she realizes that life will never be the same again. Huge changes are on the horizon and Silver is in the thick of them . . ." -Goodreads

RESURGENCE
Main Article: Resurgence