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Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.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 with their Round Table fractured, leaderless, and missing its Kingsmage, as Selwyn has also disappeared. When Nick is detained by the Order’s Merlins, he invokes an ancient law that requires the High Council of Regents to convene at the Northern Keep and grant him an audience. No one knows what he will demand of them...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.

Um hinter das Geheimnis um den Unfalltod ihrer Mutter zu kommen, trat Bree Matthews einer Geheimgesellschaft bei: den Legendborn, die Nachfahren der Artusritter, die die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten vor den Dämonen beschützen. Durch die Legendborn entdeckte Bree, welche Macht in ihr schlummert – eine Macht, die sie für immer verändert hat. Im Krieg gegen die Dämonen bahnt sich ein blutiger Höhepunkt an: Nick, der Junge, in den sich Bree verliebt hat, wurde entführt. Um ihn zu retten, muss Bree lernen, ihre Kräfte zu kontrollieren, ohne sich selbst dabei zu verlieren ...

Llena de misterio y un sistema mágico intrigante, la fantasía contemporánea YA de Tracy Deonn reinventa la leyenda del Rey Arturo, entrelazando tradiciones populares sureñas y Black Girl Magic en una historia moderna de dolor, poder y autodescubrimiento. Tras la muerte de su madre en un accidente, Bree Matthews, de dieciséis años, busca escapar de los recuerdos de su familia y su hogar. Un programa residencial para estudiantes brillantes en UNC-Chapel Hill parece ser la solución, hasta que, en su primera noche, es testigo de un ataque mágico. Un demonio volador se alimenta de energías humanas, y una sociedad secreta de estudiantes "Legendborn" caza a estas criaturas. Un misterioso mago adolescente que se hace llamar "Merlín" intenta borrar de la memoria de Bree lo que vio, pero su fracaso desata la magia única de Bree y un recuerdo enterrado relacionado con la noche de la muerte de su madre. Al descubrir que hay más en su muerte de lo que parece, Bree se infiltra en Legendborn para buscar la verdad, reclutando a Nick, un Legendborn autoexiliado. Juntos, se adentran en los secretos de la sociedad y se acercan el uno al otro. Sin embargo, cuando los Legendborn revelan su conexión con los caballeros del Rey Arturo y una inminente guerra mágica, Bree debe decidir hasta dónde llegará por la verdad y si usará su magia para combatir o unirse a la lucha.

The shadows have risen, and the line is law. All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new: A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion. But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected. When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death. If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.