Legendborn

After her mother dies in
an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with
her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright
high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until
Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.

A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.

And
a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who
attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The
mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with
a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at
the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death
than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find
out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of
their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with
his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls
them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But
when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King
Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to
decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her
magic to take the society down—or join the fight.