Description
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants to escape her family memories and childhood home. A residential program for gifted high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems perfect—until Bree witnesses a magical attack on her first night on campus. A flying demon preying on human energies. A secret society of “Legendborn” students who hunt these creatures. And a mysterious teenage mage calling himself a “Merlin” who tries—and fails—to erase Bree’s memory of what she saw.
The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory linked to her mother’s death: another Merlin was at the hospital that night. Now, knowing there’s more to her mother’s death than the police report reveals, Bree will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth, even infiltrate the Legendborn as an initiate. She teams up with Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the society, and their uneasy alliance pulls them deeper into the group’s secrets—and closer to each other.
When the Legendborn reveal they are descendants of King Arthur’s knights and warn of an impending magical war, Bree must decide how far she’ll go for the truth. Should she use her magic to bring down the society or join the fight?
