Sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she arrives at a prestigious early-college program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hoping for a fresh start and a way to escape her grief. Instead, on her very first night, she witnesses something impossible: a flying demon feeding on human energy, and a group of secretive students who hunt it down and then try to wipe her memory of what she saw.
The failed memory-wipe cracks something open in Bree — a hidden magic of her own, and a searing new vision of the night her mother died that suggests it was no accident. To find the truth, Bree infiltrates the Legendborn: a centuries-old secret society of teens descended from King Arthur's knights, who wield Arthurian magic against demonic forces. But the Order was built by and for the powerful and the white, and as Bree digs deeper, she uncovers a legacy of magic, blood, and racism that runs straight through her own family.
Tracy Deonn's award-winning debut is a fierce, contemporary reimagining of Arthurian legend — a young-adult fantasy about grief, power, identity, and inheritance that grounds its magic in real history and real reckoning.