These malcontents, known as the Shroud, have set their sights on the two siblings. The Galinea, knighted protectors of Eruditus, have those among them who have gone rogue.

It is there they are taught to employ powers of the Artifex. Not even the ominous prospect of a crumbling world matters when each of them finds that they are helpless to control their own desires.Shrouded Secrets is an imaginative story in which David and Danielle James encounter the realm Eruditus. Soon secrets will injure the ones they love as the burden of true power begins to isolate them. The more they strive for reasonable normality, the more unstable their powers become when combined with the stresses of high school teenage life.While jealously, love, and anger unhinge their once typical lives, temptations to abuse their newfound gifts are manipulated by a shrouded and unyielding adversary who seeks to cast earth into a modern dark age. However, their lives change dramatically with the discovery that they possess power which grants them vast unearthly abilities. As David James begins his freshman year of high school, he learns that his older sister Danielle's popularity isn't genetic.

While one of the siblings will reluctantly choose the path of righteousness, the other will defiantly dabble with the promise of true power and the darkness that accompanies it. When a teenage brother and sister inherit secret metaphysical powers, they are unknowingly hunted by a group of clandestine immortals.

Shrouded Secrets by Joel T. McGrath