num_pages: 392
description: Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully trained unicorn hunter but she can't solve all her problems with just a bow and arrow. Her boyfriend Giovanni has decided to leave Rome the Cloisters is in dire financial straits her best friend's powers seem to be mysteriously disintegrating and Astrid can't help but feel that school home and her hopes of becoming a scientist are nothing but impossible dreams.So when she's given the opportunity to leave the Cloisters and put her skills to use as part of a scientific quest to discover the Remedy Astrid leaps at the chance. Finally she can have exactly what she want--or can she? At Gordian headquarters deep in the French countryside Astrid begins to question everything she thought she believed: her love for Giovanni her loyalty to the Cloisters and most of all her duty as a hunter. Should Astrid be saving the world from killer unicorns or saving the unicorns from the world?
language: English
title: Ascendant
publisher: HarperTeen