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In the year 2126, New London is a city ruled by strict class divisions. When seventeen-year-old Cass is cast down into the lowest tier of society, she knows there is only one route back up: entering the Gameshow, a brutal televised competition where contestants risk everything — often their lives — for a chance at a better class. Cass finds an unlikely ally in Jax, the arena's best player, and the two form a tense partnership as they fight for survival and social advancement inside a system built on greed.

Franzi Kopka's debut novel is the opening book of the "Gameshow" duology, a fast-paced YA dystopia in the vein of "The Hunger Games," pairing a class-based survival competition with a slow-building enemies-to-allies dynamic between its two leads.