Description: "En Garde! Excitement is in the air as Nicholas and his friends celebrate their prestigious invitation to the Halverton Training Camp. But they soon find themselves pushed to their limits as they come face-to-face with the best teams in the country. Will a new addition to the opposing team help Nicholas awaken the fighting spirit he needs to prevail? And what will it mean for his friendship with Seiji?"--
Brief description: C. S. Pacat is a bestselling Australian author, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015.
Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne.[3] She[a] lived in several different cities including Perugia where she studied at Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years.[4][2] Pacat wrote the Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist.[1] Pacat is queer and genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns.[5] She identifies as "a proud wog,"[6] and states that this played an influence while writing the Captive Prince trilogy: "As for the influence on Captive Prince, I'm a bisexual wog, and Damen is a bisexual wog - so there's that[7]....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia.