At Fay & Drake College, tucked deep within the mysterious town of Eldermoor in the Appalachian Mountains of Old Vermont, first-year student Bran Eklund enters a world where scholarship collides with secrets too strange to name. Under the watchful eye of the formidable Dean Marianne Solwyn and a faculty brimming with brilliance, Bran soon discovers that campus life is far more than lectures and late nights.With his sharp-witted artificial companion, Diana, and a circle of steadfast ...