Zodiac Rising

Earthly Branches Academy is a secret boarding school in Manhattan. The Descendants of the Chinese zodiac live there in hiding, cut off from the magic they once drew from twelve zodiac statues. The statues were vandalized and lost, and a curse has kept the Descendants creatures of darkness since British soldiers took the bronze fountainheads during the Second Opium War.

Then the lost statues resurface, and a powerful classmate is found dead. Suspicion falls on the fae. Soon after, Julius Long, chancellor of the Descendants' High Council, is killed as well.

His sister Evangeline is a vampire, and an old prophecy now rests on her. She must retrieve the fountainheads and restore mortality to her people. To do it, she gathers a small crew: Nicholas, her best friend and a fox spirit; Tristan, her werewolf ex; and Alice, a mortal who reads minds.

Their plan is a heist into Faerieland, a dangerous trip with two aims. It is a quest to recover the fountainheads, and it is also a search for whoever killed Evangeline's brother. This is a young adult fantasy that mixes a school setting, a murder mystery and a theft, with a historical wrong behind the curse.