I was so frustrated with Hunter, though. He had such good reasons to mistrust people. He is learning that he didn't know his father as well as he thought he did. His Grandfather hurts him in the worst possible way. And his Mom allows it. He meets Kate, the new girl at school and there is an instant attraction. But Kate has her own secrets, her own agenda. And she gives him plenty of reasons not to trust her. He is betrayed time after time. But...the Merrick boys do try to support him, to help him. Due to Hunter's failure to communicate and his lack of trust, though, everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. 
 I loved Michael in this book. He has a girlfriend now, and we are shown a much softer side of him. He is a rock for Hunter. It seems like he always knows just what to say or do. 
 We have plenty of bad guys in this book. Silver, who is Kate's partner/supervisor, wants to kill the Elementals. And he'll do anything to achieve this goal. And we have a group of very young elementals who don't even understand their powers yet who want a fight with the guides. And right in the middle of all of this, trying to save lives, is Hunter and the Merrick Brothers. Hunter is a fifth, meaning that he can access power from all of the elements, and we finally get a glimpse at what happens when he joins forces with all four of the other elements.