Lee, Victoria

Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend's tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley--a new student and a teenage literary prodigy--who enlists Felicity's help in researching the school's bloody, occult history for her new book.

"Six months after Noam ?lvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget--that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now that Noam remembers the full extent of Lehrer's crimes, he's determined to use his influence with Lehrer to bring him down for good. If Lehrer realizes Noam has evaded his control--and that Noam is plotting against him--Noam's dead. So he must keep playing the role of Lehrer's prot?g? until he can steal enough vaccine to stop the virus. Meanwhile Dara Shirazi returns to Carolinia, his magic stripped by the same vaccine that saved his life. But Dara's attempts to ally himself with Noam prove that their methods for defeating Lehrer are violently misaligned. Dara fears Noam has only gotten himself more deeply entangled in Lehrer's web. Sooner or later, playing double agent might cost Noam his life"--Jacket flap.

"In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolina. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks--refugees Carolina routinely deports with vicious efficiency.Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister's offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meetsthe minister's son--cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful--and the way forward becomes less clear"--Publisher.

In a post-apocalyptic United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro gains the power of a technopath--the ability to control technology--after a viral magic killed his immigrant family and put him in a hospital. Carolina's minister of defense recruits Noam because of his abilities, and seeing a chance to affect change for the undocumented immigrant community, which is subject to brutal treatment under Carolina's government, Noam agrees, secretly hoping to use the minister's technology against them. But when Noam meets the minister's dangerous, impossibly alluring son, Dara, Noam's mission becomes muddled.