At Mythos Academy, teen-warriors-in-the-making train to take up their roles protecting humankind. With her snarky, self-deprecating voice and strange gift of psychometry--the ability to know an object's history just by touching it--Gwen Frost is an outsider both to the students of the Academy and the rest of the world. But now that she's taking private tutoring with the Academy's most notorious young Spartan, and has Nike's own sword to protect her, she's ready to make her mark.