Legendborn

Legendborn is a 2020 debut young adult fantasy novel by Tracy Deonn. Called "a modern day twist on Arthurian legend", it follows a black teenage girl who discovers a secret and historically white magic society. The book is the first in the Legendborn series. It was released on September 15, 2020, and it was published under Simon & Schuster/McElderry. Legendborn received the Coretta Scott King Award/John Steptoe Award for New Talent as well as a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Plot summary The novel's main character is 16-year-old Bree Matthews, a college student who attempts to infiltrate a historically white magical society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she finds out that some members may have been involved in her mother's recent death. Three months after her mother's death, Bree attends the University of North Carolina with her friend Alice. On the first night, they sneak out of campus with a group of people. They get caught and are given peer mentors to watch over them due to breaking the law. While Bree is walking with her peer mentor Nick, a "shadowborn" monster appears, and Nick slays it with a sword. Bree is then taken to an unknown building where a strange man attempts to erase her mind, but fails without knowing so. Through Nick, Bree discovers a secret organization that is full of Legendborn nobles -- descendants from fifteen of King Arthur's knights. She gradually recovers her memory of her mother's death and is able to uncover the mage's organization enough to decide to infiltrate it as a page, which is a person training to defend the Legendborn nobles.