PrologueChancellor Geoffrey Clarke was simply Geoff Clarke and only fifteen when he learned the truth about his parents. He’d always known, of course, that his mother was a respected journalist for the Fulton Daily News and his father, her mate, was a slave and aided in her investigations.
What he hadn’t known until that day when he was fifteen was that his mother wasn’t only a journalist. She had another equally important but highly secret position. Geoff, like all children his age, had grown up hearing stories of sentries, rough-and-tumble people, dangerous and predatory, who lived on society’s edge, guarding it from natural and supernatural threats alike.
Along with those stories were tales of a group of people referred to as recorders. These were the people who chronicled the history
