It has been twenty years since the endof the war. The dictatorial Augurs - once thought of almost as gods - wereoverthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powersmysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and womenwith a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only bysubmitting themselves to the rebellion’s Four Tenets. A representation ofthese laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcingthose so marked into absolute obedience.As a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers theconsequences of a war fought – and lost – before he was born. Despised bymost beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all butprisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. Worse, as Davianstruggles with his lessons, he knows that there is further to fall if hecannot pass his final tests.But when Daviandiscovers he has the ability to wield the forbidden power of the Augurs,he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. To thenorth, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. And to thewest, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in theforest, covered in blood and with no memory of who heis…