Publisher's Synopsis
Nathan Briggs left home and family to travel the world a year earlier. The son of a wealthy New England industrialist family, Nathan traveled as far away from responsibility in the family business as he could after university.
His relationship with his father fractured, and having cut his travels short to fly home at news of a missing grandfather, he returns to face the prospect of a life tied to Briggs Industries, confused and unsure what to do about his future. But is everything what it seems? Are his family the people he'd always thought them to be? How well had he really known his grandfather? Hunted in the night by dark shadows, inheritor of a strange magic, and his family's past unravelling before his eyes, he races to learn magic from a missing grandfather while coming to terms with his own father and his place in the family. Can he save himself and his friends from the darkness? Will he strong enough? This new world is not the one he grew up knowing. He must come to grips with it before it kills him.
