No Stone Unturned

Connor has a problem. No, it's not the fact that his student army is pitiful compared to the competition. It's not even the spies infesting the school, the allies lining up to kill him, or even the fact that Shona plans to force him to lead a bloody war of conquest across the continent. It's what to do about all the secrets. Conspiracies centuries in the making are beginning to unravel and truths about patronage, the unclaimed, and the very stones that fuel Petralist powers threaten to emerge from their shadowy grave. If he's not careful, Connor will get dumped in that grave with them. 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. Only then can he face his real enemy, concealed in the shadows and waiting to transform him into the worst monster since Tallan himself. Connor's best hope is to embrace the thing he most fears. And become the ultimate unclaimed. The plot thickens at the Carraig as war threatens to erupt between the nations and student armies clash in the deadliest game the school has ever seen. Connor must face intrigue, deadly new enemies, and horrible poetry even to get a chance to risk everything on a final bid for freedom.The only way to save the Carraig may be to destroy it.