Secrets and Power (Ascended 2)

Keilena has managed to fight off the Ascended who challenged her on the journey across Pellotal, but now she has reached her uncle's castle where the danger is even greater. She just wants to stay alive and keep her father and friends safe for long enough to get control over her magic, but letting her get stronger seems to be the last thing anyone at the castle wants.

Lorle Gisorr, her mother's estranged brother, arrives and Keilena realises both he and Lorle Inson, her other uncle, want some object they believe she possesses.

As she finally discovers why her mother sent her here, she realises just how much danger she and those she cares about are in. Will they all survive to escape from this accursed place and will the Matep, the man she is reluctantly falling for, help or destroy her?

This is the second book of the YA epic fantasy trilogy.