

And Emma doesn't control just one color-she controls them all.Emma wants to show Thomas the full power of color magic, but it goes against everything his father is fighting for. When his errands for the cause bring him time and again to Emma Areben, a former classmate, Thomas is exposed to a whole new brand of magic. Thomas must join forces with Guy if he wants to save his own life. His father has bigger plans: to kill the king.

His only hope is to track down his father and demand a mask. But when Guy refuses to give Thomas his mask or even his presence, Thomas has no place in school or society.

He desperately hopes for a gray mask so he can remove the stone that has invaded his body and will ultimately take his life. Young Thomas Fawkes's Color Test has finally arrived, and he's sure his father, the infamous Guy Fawkes, will present him with a mask and Thomas will finally bond with a color. In seventeenth-century London two forces rule the people: the color powers and the Stone Plague. A magical retelling of the Gunpowder Plot that will sweep you back in time to a divided England where plagues turn victims to stone.
