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.
Now all those after-school activities gymnastics, judo, survival training she made him take, make sense. For suddenly Ronan is swept up in a sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always thrilling adventure dashing from one danger to the next, using his wits to escape the Bend Sinister, a posse of evil doers with strange powers. Falling in with two unlikely companions, Greta, a scrappy, strong-willed girl he s never much liked and Jack, a devil-may-care teenage pickpocket, Ronan is left with only his wits and his mom s last words of advice: Trust no one.
That s a lot for an ordinary kid to deal with. But then again, maybe Ronan s not ordinary at all.