From the wealthiest of families, from the richest of rich, and the most arrogant of arrogance, Silas Octavion Eden III comes from Kowd in South London. A night before he gets shipped off to his last year at Acton Academy Boarding School for Boys, an event comes along that causes Eden's life to take a turn. He is sent from the evergreen hills of Kowd and the warmth of his Acton dormitory to a place where he is illustrious and strange.