Shortly after losing both parents Jasper, seventeen, learns that he is the last living descendant of traitor Benedict Arnold and part of a centuries-old feud run by secret organizations.
Shortly after losing both parents Jasper learns that he is the last living descendant of traitor Benedict Arnold. Now he's at the center of a war that has been going on for centuries, in which the descendants of the heroes and traitors of the American Revolution still duel to the death for the sake of their honor. Whisked off to a boarding school populated by other descendants of notorious American traitors, he's in a race to discover the truth-- before his eighteenth birthday.