Published by Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 0375870458 (ISBN13: 9780375870453)

SYNOPSIS:
“Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents’ insistence, he’s made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.
Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and is being followed by men driving black sedans. When Will suddenly loses his parents, he must flee to the school. There he begins to explore all that he’s capable of—physical and mental feats that should be impossible—and learns that his abilities are connected to a struggle between titanic forces that has lasted for millennia.” 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Brooklyn, raised in Los Angeles, Mark Frost began writing at 10, and writing professionally at 15. When his family moved to Minneapolis he worked and studied at the Guthrie Theater during high school, then studied acting, directing, and playwriting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Frost is an avid, life-long Los Angeles Lakers fan, and a long-suffering fan of the Minnesota Vikings, who have broken his heart on at least seven different occasions. You think he’d know better by now.