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Young Davian is an Augur; a once powerful race that has become almost extinct due to legislation. The surviving remnant stay silent about their powers lest they follow the same fate as their forebears – outlawed and then murdered by a harsh legal system. Up till now Davian has been safe within an academy for the Gifted: the Tol in Andarra. Then one day everything changes. Now Davian is running for his life, unaware of his capabilities or whom it's safe to trust. It's even worse than it sounds for this is a world on the edge of war, trying to suppress secrets that will endanger its very existence.

If fantasy thrives on jeopardy then ''The Shadow of What Was Lost'' is totally adrenalised. Without giving away spoilers, near the beginning we're presented with a catastrophic event that hurls Davian and his friend Wirr into a mission they don't fully understand. All they know is that it's fatal if they put a foot wrong. The fact they don't know where the right place for their feet doesn't help them any. Add to that Davian's illegal semi-formed abilities, a murderer they collect on the way who can't remember how or why he committed said murders and some other morally-ambiguous shady characters and we have an action packed nail biter on our hands.