<p>For Kip, growing up in shadow of the human men-only Prince George&#39;s College of&nbsp;Sorcery has been nineteen years of frustration. Magic comes naturally to him, yet&nbsp;he&#39;s not allowed to study sorcery because he&#39;s a Calatian--one of a magically&nbsp;created race of animal people. But when a mysterious attack leaves the masters&nbsp;desperate for apprentices, they throw their doors open, giving Kip his chance.&nbsp;</p><p>As he fights to prove his worth to the human sorcerers, he encounters other&nbsp;oddities: a voice that speaks only to him, a book that makes people forget he&#39;s&nbsp;there, and one of the masters who will only speak to him through a raven. Greater&nbsp;than any of those mysteries or even whether the College&#39;s attacker will return to&nbsp;finish the job is the mystery of how Kip and his friends can prove that this place&nbsp;is where they belong&hellip;</p>