The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

A girl who bleeds gold instead of red discovers she's a near-immortal warrior in a West African-inspired kingdom built on a brutal test of purity. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear of the Ritual of Purity, a ceremony every girl in Otera must pass by bleeding red — until her own blood runs gold, marking her as impure and worthy of death. Saved at the last moment by a mysterious woman, Deka learns she's actually an Alaki, a nearly indestructible warrior, and is offered a choice: fight for the empire that condemned her, or be destroyed. Forna built the world from West African mythology and stories her grandmother told her as a child during the Sierra Leone civil war, and the novel became an instant New York Times bestseller and the first in a trilogy, later optioned for film.

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