Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from the friends who can’t understand the impossible cost of her powers. This is the only way to keep herself—and those she loves—safe.
But Bree’s decision has come with a terrible price: an unbreakable bargain with the Shadow King himself, a shapeshifter who can move between humanity, the demon underworld, and the Legendborn secret society. In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities, Bree has put her future in the Shadow King’s hands—and unwittingly bound herself to do his bidding as his new protégé.
Meanwhile, the other Scions must face war while their Round Table is fractured, leaderless, and missing its Kingsmage, as Selwyn has also disappeared. When Nick invokes an ancient law that requires the High Council of Regents to grant him an audience, the Order’s Merlins imprison him. No one knows what he will demand of the Regents…or what secrets he has kept hidden from the Table.
As a string of mysterious kidnappings escalates and Merlins are found dead, it becomes clear that no matter how hard Bree runs from who she is, the past will always find her.
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Contemporary young adult fantasy literature gained a major Arthurian reinvention through the Legendborn Cycle, a bestselling series that weaves Arthurian legend with African American history and Southern lore. Contemporary American author Tracy Deonn introduced this universe in her debut novel Legendborn, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, received the Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and won the 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Young Adult Novel. The narrative continued in the bestselling sequel Bloodmarked, with the third installment, Oathbound, slated for release in 2025 and a fourth novel planned to complete the series.
Raised in central North Carolina as a second-generation science fiction fan, Deonn wrote her first short story at age nine—a piece about a girl who could understand animals, which her mother registered with the Library of Congress. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in communication and performance studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before transitioning to full-time fiction writing, Deonn worked across live theater, video game production, and K–12 education. She taught theater to middle school and undergraduate students, as well as creative and academic writing at the university level. In 2019, she served as a featured expert, co-writer, and consulting producer for the SyFy Channel docu-series Looking for Leia, which examined women in Star Wars fandom.
Deonn's writing frequently explores intricate magic systems, grief, identity, and historical memory. Her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies and on Tor.com, including a contribution to the 40th anniversary Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. In her novels, Deonn draws upon her background in performance studies and storytelling to build contemporary fantasy settings where modern social realities intersect with ancient magic. Outside of novel writing, Deonn speaks on science fiction and fantasy convention panels, reads comics and fan fiction, and enjoys ginger-flavored foods.
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