
But Seph's enthusiasm dampens quickly when he learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students' powers to serve his own mysterious agenda. Gregory Leicester, the headmaster, promises to train Seph in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards. At first, it seems like the answer to his prayers. After causing a tragic fire at an after-hours party, Seph is sent to the Havens, a secluded boys’ school on the coast of Maine. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained-and now that the only person who could protect him has died, his powers are escalating out of control. It’s the trail of magical accidents-lately, disasters-that follow in his wake.

Unfortunately it’s not his attitude that’s the problem.

Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another.
