Roots That Bind

Deep in the woods, Quinn Reed lost her magic.

As a child, she dreamt herself into a world where boys with blade-sharp ears hunted beneath the moon and raw power spilled from her fingertips. But after her imagination nearly killed her, she spent the next eight years ignoring it. After all, magic wasn’t real, no matter how much she wished otherwise. When a mysterious blight threatens California’s forests, Quinn is drawn back to the woods of her childhood, where she’s forced to confront the devastating truth of her past.

After Mason’s magic manifested, he spent the next five years running, both from his power and the rogue Nascent—Earth’s magical elite—hell-bent on controlling him. When his cousin Silas vanishes, Mason joins the search. But instead of the missing boy, he finds Quinn, whose broken magic calls to him like a siren’s song.

As Mason fights to keep his magic under control, and Quinn seeks ways to regain her lost power, the truth behind  Silas’ disappearance sends them deep into the desert in search of a lost relic with the power to remake the world. 

Together, they must race against time to find a cure for the blight before magic, the forest, and everything else they hold dear go up in flames.