There are disturbing rumours about Heir Gavar killing a slave on the estate and the youngest, Silyen, is just an all round oddity, extremely gifted and clearly playing a long term game completely different from the one everyone around him is involved in.

Patriarch Lord Whittam Jardine is plotting to retake control of Britain even though his time as Chancellor is complete. But when the Jardines decide they don’t have enough work for all of them, Luke is separated from his family and sent away to the industrial slavetown of Millmoor. Kyneston, however, is unlike what they imagined, and every member of the Jardine family has their own secrets and motives. Thinking that this will be an opportunity for the family to stay together, and that too at the vast estate of Kyneston (a luxury compared to the harsh conditions of the slavetowns), the Hadley family sign up for their days, taking with them their son, 16 year old Luke and 10 year old Daisy. And the main way they do this is through the slavedays, a period of ten years during which every commoner must spend as slaves, either working in one of Britain’s many slavetowns or serving on one of the Equal families’ estates.Įighteen year old Abi Hadley finds out that the Jardine family, the most powerful Equals in the country are looking for house slaves. In Britain, the Equals run things, controlling the nation from Parliament. Gilded Cage describes a society split between Equals, the nobility who possess magical Skills, and the skill-less commoners. They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. Do them young, and you’ll never get over them.

Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters-the magical elite-you owe them ten years of service. Synopsis: In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power-and you.

Tarnished city vic james