Jerrika Little is plain, but everyone treats her as if she's hideous. Raised in Perso's Creek, a country where King Navion Perso rules his subjects unjustly, she is the daughter of a high noble and sent to Krijar Castle to train to be a Soldata, an elite female warrior. She and her beautiful, adopted sister, Rayna, find themselves in a school where they continue to distrust and hate each other. Rayna's surrounded by her high noble friends and the prince who loves her, and Jerrika's only friend is a noble-born trainee. What could possibly bring these girls together? And what is it that these two girls have in common which will change the destiny of Perso's Creek forever?