Some legacies are meant to be broken.
 
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 in UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very frist 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 reveals Bree's own uniquemagic 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 lmore 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 recruites Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their their reluctant partnership pull sthem deeper into the society's secrets- and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn ereveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur's knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how rar she'll go for the truth and whether she should use her magicto take the society down- or join the fight.