SHADOWBOUND

She survived the Blood Moon. She kept them all. Now the world wants to take them apart.
The bond is complete. The four heirs are hers — Cassian, Theo, Lucian, Beckett — bound in a configuration that the founding documents never anticipated and the magical world’s governing bodies never planned for. The ward bond didn’t just seal the West Wing. It sent a pulse through every seal in the network. And the six people who run that network noticed.
Within days, the Council of Six arrives at Hollowmere. Six headmasters from six academies across the world, watching Rowan Mercer with the careful faces of powerful people who have just realized they’ve miscalculated something significant. They say they need her help. They say the other seals are destabilized. They say the five of them are the only ones who can fix it.
What they don’t say: a bonded five with her power configuration has never existed before. The founding covenant gives Rowan authority the Council has been quietly suppressing for two hundred years. And the closer she gets to understanding what she and the heirs actually are together, the more dangerous she becomes to the people who built their power on the assumption that the Mercer bloodline would never figure it out.