Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third
book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with
secret societies and the legend of King Arthur! 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.
