Orphanheroine Stories

After a quiet, sheltered life with her guardians, Lucy Owens can't wait to graduate high school so she can go off to college and reinvent herself in a world where no one knows her. Instead, she finds herself hunted by an army of Gifteds, a subset of humans with supernatural abilities. As she discovers more about herself and her ancestors, to whom she bears a striking resemblance, she realizes that she doesn't even know herself. At all. With the help of Embry and Gabriel, two Gifteds sworn to protect her, Lucy will have to let go of her fears, then dig deep into herself, her past, and her ancestry if she wants even a chance of surviving.

Leila Stormhart is an orphan. Doomsday took her family, her city, and her right to be ordinary. All she has left is her mother's journal--locked, encrypted, and only power can open it. Real power. Leila wants to enter the Academy of Magical Arts. But without a clan, a name, or a single coin, getting in is impossible. Her only chance is a Contract with one of the powerful. That means passing Trials, attracting attention, and making a deal. She has no patrons. No connections. Only stubbornness, a runic compass, and a gift for charging artifacts-a basic skill no one cares about. And then there's the Heir of a noble clan, with whom she had to survive. Entirely against her will.