Emmalynn Atera

After scarcely surviving Alexa Delphine's wrath in the forest, Emma is left bruised, broken, and terrified for her loved ones' safety. Now she and her best friends are all on the powerful Delphines' list, and they must enter their junior year looking over their shoulders while preparing for their class's two-week cruise around Europe. But tensions quickly stir in the high seas when Emma spots Alexa in Athens; according to Jak, Alexa is still in North Carolina with the rest of her pack. Realizing that they're in the middle of a cold war, Emma and her friends return home questioning what the Delphines are really after-and whom. When someone in Emma's circle disappears and is found half dead, she has reason to believe that an enemy tried to warn her about it. Left with nothing but a coded riddle and her growing powers as a hybrid, Emma has one chance to expose the hunt before it pulls her loved ones under for good.

With the reopening of the Callistro Academy's infamous Hunter's Room, Emma and her friends have officially begun training for their future careers as Hunters. Ready to leave behind the memories of first semester, Emma has only one goal for second: to keep her identity as a sorceress from her best friends, her classmates, and the Hunters that have infiltrated her walls. It isn't long, though, until the new semester unravels dangers of its own and resurrects the ghosts of last September. As if past enemies and a masked kidnapper determined for the secrets of Emma's blood weren't enough-an anonymous number may know who she really is. Thrown into a violent mental war, Emma must delve deeper into the Hunter world to strengthen her instincts and her magic. Now the only way to survive and protect her family is to embrace what she's always feared the most: the Hunter within.

A harrowing hunting final leaves Emma shaken and wary about her first real summer vacation-especially after finding out that Alexa Delphine was stalking her during the entire hunt. But when the Grand Hunter tries to close in on her magic once and for all, Emma's growing powers upend her plans, rendering Alexa memory rid and at the Ateras' mercy. As the summer unfolds, keeping Alexa under watch becomes more and more of a life-threatening gamble. While the Ateras fight to keep the pack at bay, Emma's friends are consequently dragged into the world of magic in a way that none of them can reverse. Now Emma faces an impossible ultimatum: expose her identity as a magician, or risk a new reality where one mistake could unravel every last secret. Refusing to let her past haunt her any longer, Emma's ready to confront her memories and leave none of them unturned no matter what they reveal-or change.

Fifteen-year-old Emmalynn Marie is the daughter of America's most wanted sorcerer, Tristan Atera. With the country out for the blood of magic, Emma has one hope to protect her identity: enroll in the Callistro Academy, an all-girls boarding school that once trained the secret agents hunting down her people. But any plans she and her best friends had for the school year quickly shatter when a pack of Grand Hunters finds Emma on the first day of school-and they suspect her for who she really is. As suspicions rise and the government closes in, Emma is thrown deeper into a war she is ultimately destined to fight in. She soon discovers that even her allies and greatest enemies have secrets just as fatal as her own, and she must protect her darkest secret before her family-and her people-pay the ultimate price.