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 at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first 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 unlocks Bree’s own unique magic 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 more 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 recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

Magie artušovských legend pokračuje! Dokáže Bree ovládnout vlastní síly? Bree si vždy přála pouze odhalit pravdu ohledně smrti svojí matky. A tak se vetřela do řádu mýtonošů, tajného společenství potomků rytířů krále Artuše – a tam objevila své vlastní síly poděděné po předcích. A teď se Bree stala někým novým. Médiem. Krvečárnou. Dědičkou. Ale prastará válka mezi démony a řádem se blíží ke smrtícímu vrcholu. A Nick, mýtonoš, do kterého se Bree zamilovala, byl unesen. Bree chce bojovat, ale regenti, kteří řádu vládnou, jí to nedovolí. Pro ně je jen neznámá holka s podivnými silami a jakožto živoucí kotva kouzla, které uchovává cyklus mýtonošů, musí být ochráněna. Když regenti prokážou, že jsou ochotní udělat cokoli, aby válku utajili, Bree a její přátelé se musí vydat Nicka zachránit sami. Ale nepřátelé jsou všude a Breeiny síly jsou nepředvídatelné a nebezpečné. A taky nedokáže uniknout rostoucí přitažlivosti, kterou cítí k Selwynovi, mágovi, který slíbil, že bude Nicka až do smrti ochraňovat. Pokud chce Bree doufat, že existuje alespoň maličká naděje, že se jí podaří zachránit sebe a ty, které miluje, musí se naučit ovládat své síly od předků, kteří jimi vládli jako první – a nepřijít přitom o sebe samou.

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.

Placeholder for Book 4 of the Legendborn Cycle confirmed by Tracy Deonn on instagram in January 2025.

The Legendborn Cycle Series 2 Books Collection Set Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery” (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. 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 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.

The first three books in Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur are now available together in a hardcover boxed set! 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 at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first 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 unlocks Bree’s own unique magic 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 more to her mother’s death than what’s in 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 recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight. But the Order won’t give up their secrets so easily… This action-packed hardcover boxed set includes: _Legendborn Bloodmarked Oathbound_