The Book of Secrets (The Word and the Sword series - Book One)

Found floating in a stream as an infant by peasants, with no past and no last name, all twelve-year-old Finian wants in the world is to find out what happened to his parents.
So when his step-sister provides him with the only clue - the corner of a cloak he'd been swaddled in when she found him - he realizes finding them might actually be possible.

What Finian couldn't begin to suspect was that such a search would drag him into a larger and more perilous world than he could ever have imagined. His quest will lead him into a great conflict that has raged for millennia, an ancient mystery thought lost long ago, and bring him face to face with unimaginable evil.

The Book of Secrets begins a sweeping and unforgettable new fantasy epic in the grandest classical tradition.