Once upon a time, in a small Carolina border town, there lived a woman and her dead best friend's kids. Orphaned at fifteen, Mackenzie Temple can't exactly fly under the radar. People still whisper about those poor children that deceased, alcoholic mother left behind. To make sure her new surrogate parent doesn't regret her decision, Mackenzie sticks to two simple rules: Head down. Grades up.
But when an evening of rule bending kicks off a chain of unfortunate events, Mackenzie's carefully constructed world begins to unravel. And that mysterious mountain boy isn't making things any easier.
Meanwhile, her strange Art History class taught by even stranger teachers embarks on a field trip, taking the concept of strange to a whole new level. Was learning how to track evil creatures even on the course syllabus? With chunks of memories missing, Mackenzie's world falls deeper into chaos.
For her little brother's sake, she can no longer hide behind her books. Facing enemies, old and new, she must act or lose the very thing she's tried so hard to protect.
Secrets must be kept. Lies must be told. Monsters must be stopped.
"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲"
𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧
After my parents died...from a car accident 10 years ago, I didn't think I would ever be able to recover until I met him...my savior and even then I've never truly recovered I was young...8 years old, I only remember so much of my parents. I do remember one thing that I never was able to get out of my head. My mother's last words to me "You...my....sweet...girl...come...from...a...witch...family....a...very...powerful one...be careful Liliana...with...our...power...you...will...scare...others...around...you...you...already...have...enemies...we...all...do...my...dear." Those exact words have haunted me and imprinted in my mind for the past 10 years...I'm 18 years old now and about to go off to some college my parents put in their will for me to attend...I've been in foster care since my parents passed...Now the will they wrote is forcing me to go to some school called Dark Night Stars Academy...I just wasn't expecting to fall in love and discover the many secrets the school is hiding from us not at all.
𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧
I've run, hidden, and repeated....my whole life...I have no one but my friends at Dark Night Stars Academy...My parents left me as a baby...not sure why... no one ever told me. Since I was just a baby I was pretty much in different homes...I ran and ran until I ended up here. I soon found out that the same parents who abandoned me are the ones who own this school...dark secrets are yet to be discovered when one little star arrives here at this very school. Lillian Michelson...my little star...th