Legendborn (Export), Paperback Book, By: Tracy Deonn

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legend born offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic. After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen year old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her previous life, family memories, or her childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at a local university 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 "Legend born" students that hunt the creatures down. And a 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, unique magic and unlocks a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that she knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, Bree will do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legend born by becoming one of their initiates. But when the Legend born reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur and his 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.