The Acheron Order

Vic Wood’s ordinary life crumbles when her younger brother is accepted into the Acheron Order, a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the world of the dead at bay. While Henry inherited their absent mother’s magical abilities, Vic did not. So she is stunned when the Order’s mysterious leader invites her to join the other initiates at Avalon Castle, to prove his controversial hypothesis – that magic can be taught.

But outsiders aren’t welcome at Avalon, and Vic has to fight for the chance to stay. Scouring archives and libraries for anything she can use to her advantage, Vic uncovers a dangerous truth: the Order is on the brink of war, and her own mother might have started it.

And then there is Xan, the Order’s imposing, ruthless, frustrating head Sentinel. Xan makes no secret that he wants Vic gone. But even the cavernous castle can feel cramped and claustrophobic amidst their electric connection . . .

As simmering tension gives way to violence, Vic must choose whether to leave the preternatural behind, and risk losing her family, or stay, and remain powerless in a world where power is everything.

Power remade her. Desire might destroy her.

Still reeling from the traumatic acquisition of her powers, newly Made witch Vic Wood is determined to master the magic now coursing through her - and to prove herself worthy of the Acheron Order, the secret society of witches that controls the Veil between the living and the dead. But the Order is on the brink of all-out war, and training within the shadowed walls of Avalon Castle means encountering danger at every turn: rivalries sharpen, alliances shift, and every lesson cuts deeper than the last.

When a training accident nearly kills her, Vic is saved by Xan, the Order's Chief Sentinel, in an act of forbidden magic that binds their fates in ways neither can escape. As their connection deepens, so do the fractures in Vic’s loyalties. Vic finds herself caught between the rules that bind her and the power that could break them. And as old secrets rise to the surface, one truth becomes clear - she can become the weapon the Order needs to win this war, but it will demand more than magic. It will cost her everything.