Hawthorn Academy
3 primary works
Book 1
My name is Aliyah, and my family is famous.
My great-grandfather’s magic brought light and healing to the world. On the other side of that coin, my uncle is an infamous criminal, using his magic to only perform evil.
I carry their potential. I carry their power. One day, I’ll be able to use it – and my goal is to use it for good.
Now, I’m starting school, and my biggest challenge isn’t history, math, or even the dreaded Magiscience Lab. It’s keeping a devastating secret from almost everyone, including my own family. I’m an Extramagus, just like my uncle, whose incredible powers absolutely corrupted him.
Is evil really my destiny, or can I fight it somehow?
Book 2
The only way to stop a threat is to destroy it…
…And last year, we discovered an enormous one.
Temperance Fairbanks: the most powerful and sadistic water magus ever to set foot on campus.
Hawthorn Academy will host a series of extramural challenges. That means we’re hosting shifters, changelings, psychics, and even a vampire. Temperance vowed to hurt them any way she can, and she’s already got help.
My roommate Grace has a plan. Social warfare, breaking reputations and hearts, including her own. And she wants me to be her muscle.
Last year I almost burned the school down. But this time, I might just be sitting on a powder keg.
Book 3
The system is broken and if I’m not careful, it’ll break me too.
While my peers get excited for college, I brace for disaster. I’ve learned at Hawthorn Academy that danger can happen to anyone. To the jock. To the class clown. To my brother. Now I’m in the line of fire.
All known extramagi must have their abilities tested. The way they do it is a horrifying secret. After witnessing one last year, I made a plan to expose the ugly truth. But there’s a mind magus on campus now, threatening me. And he’s totally within his rights to do so. Mr. Fairbanks leads the Board of Trustees, which demoted the headmaster and expelled my brother.
Last year’s threat was only a symptom of bigger problems. Half the Trustees play quid pro quo while the rest flex their authority for personal vendettas. Mr. Fairbanks blames me for his daughter’s troubles. Mrs. Onassis says I poisoned her son’s mind. And Mr. Pierce thinks I’m taking advantage of his children. All because extramagi are supposedly evil. But now I suspect we’re scapegoats the influential families pin blame on.
They say you make your own future. But can I survive the present first?