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Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he's determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world's survival. Eager to prove he's got what it takes to become a Guard, Ronan can't believe that the first mission he, Greta, and Sammy are sent on is to visit a weird-sounding school and take a series of tests called the Glass Gauntlet.

When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove’s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too? His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact, she’s a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure — thirty-six noble souls whose safety is crucial if the world as we know it is to survive.

Civilization collapses: temperatures rise, viruses destroy medical capacities, ravaging weather systems leave fields barren, and the grid system fails. Human society shrinks until only refugee camps remain. But from this precipice The Centers arise. Telepathic, organic, harmonious biospheres of perfect natural balance. Consciousness is shared, body parts recycled, group mind intuition organizes society; it is a world in which the wrongs of human history have been righted. The Centers save humanity. But 25 years after their creation, a new disease threatens their existence.