Oathbound

Until she turned 16, Bree lived a relatively normal life with her parents, Faye and Edwin, in North Carolina. When she was 16, Faye passed away suddenly, and not long afterward, Bree began attending the Early College Program at the University of North Carolina. From there, Bree’s life began to change drastically as she became aware of the magical communities that surrounded her and that she believed were linked to her mother’s death. When Edwin urges Bree to see a therapist to deal with her grief, her therapist happens to be a practitioner of Rootcraft, a kind of magic that Bree’s ancestors all practiced as well.

Bree learns that she is a Medium, meaning she can communicate with her ancestors. Using this power, she meets Vera, an enslaved woman who used a form of Rootcrafting called Bloodcraft to save her own life and the lives of her descendants. However, in doing so, she unknowingly cursed all of her descendants to lose their mothers while young. During her “memory walks” to communicate with Vera, Bree also learns that Vera was raped by a man named Samuel Davis, an enslaver and a descendant of King Arthur. Though Bree had already begun to explore the connection between her mother’s death and the mysterious Order of the Round Table, she is in the middle of fighting demons when she learns that she is a descendant of Arthur and the Order’s rightful king.