For centuries, the Gadda have worked to keep their identity secret from the rapidly expanding human race. All this is now at risk, the most terrible of Gadda teachings, the Forbidden texts, have been stolen and the race is on to find them. Ione Gorton may have got her best friend back from Australia, but Maggie's elevation to the ranks of the guardians means that she's not around as much. So when Stephen O'Malley, almost the youngest, and definitely the hottest, ever candidate for the sixth-order test, needs a place to stay after strange and violent happenings hit Sclossin, Ione is all too happy to lend a hand...But Ione, like Maggie before her, is soon a target for those using the Forbidden texts. the missing artefact is changing life for Gadda and human alike...
