"Never leave the farm. Never talk about the past. Never bring up the night your mother died or the years you can't recall."

"Remember only that you're safe."

On her farm in rural Montana, Ashley believes she has a normal life. Sure, her father is gone a lot on business and her childhood is a mystery. But life is good.

Until one night changes everything.

Masked men attack her home, burning everything and killing all in their path. A strange boy named Cole comes out of nowhere on a frantic mission to save her life. She's thrust into a world she never knew existed-a world of...

"Find your people. Save us all."

When a horrific assault on their hideout leaves the Hunters shattered, Ashe has only one choice: follow Carter's orders and embark on a desperate mission to find the Merlin wizards and expose the secret sect of the Blood once and for all. She only has one problem.

She has to convince her people the Blood "exist" first.

It will be no easy task. Scorn for the Hunters runs deep and the Merlin wizards are fighting a war all their own. No one can be trusted and nothing is what it seems. On her own and with no hope of support, Ashe is in a race against...

"What would you do to save the ones you love?"

After a brutal Taliesin attack, Ashe and the Merlin wizards are on the run. Half the Council lies dead, as do many of the innocents they had sworn to defend. But in the midst of the chaos and destruction, there is still a ray of hope. The Staff of Merlin may be lost, but the historians are still out there.

Now all that's left is to find them.

But when lies and manipulations twist former allies against her, suddenly nowhere is safe. Ashe finds herself confronted with enemies more deadly than any she's faced.

Including one who once...