Lords of Arcadia: Act One Kane Vess may be gay, but he is also extraordinarily ordinary--a crushing weight in Athens, Iowa, where a person's worth is measured by his uniqueness. But when he meets the school's newest student, Kane's ordinariness seems to evaporate. He is desperate to get to know the mysterious stranger... and that leads him into danger. Hawk is an exile from his homeland, an otherworldly traveler with impossible abilities and a changeling...