<p>Connor has a problem.</p><p>No it&#39;s not the fact that his student army is pitiful compared to the competition. It&#39;s not even the spies infesting the school the allies lining up to kill him or even the fact that Shona&#39;s plans for him just keep getting worse.</p><p>It&#39;s what to do about all the secrets.</p><p>Conspiracies centuries in the making are beginning to unravel and truths about patronage the unclaimed and the very stones that fuel Petralist powers begin to emerge from their shadowy graves.</p><p>If he&#39;s not careful Connor will get dumped back in those graves with them.</p><p>To survive Connor must outsmart conniving noble houses dodge international assassins survive unbelievably bad poetry and risk new powers that were concealed for very good reasons.</p><p>Only then can he face his real enemy concealed in the shadows and waiting to transform him into the worst monster since Tallan himself.</p><p>Connor&#39;s best hope is to embrace the thing he most fears.</p><p>And become the ultimate unclaimed.</p>