Legendborn, Deonn Tracy

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 Brees memory of everything she saw.

The mages failure unlocks Brees 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 theres more to her mothers death than whats on the police report, shell do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.