Twinned

Don't hesitate. Don't overthink it. Commit to the kick. For eighteen years, Alaric has lived under the cloying politics of family and his Clan community. His freshman year is supposed to be a chance to explore a world where Clan and his shapeshifting Talent isn't central to his life. But when his inner bear bursts forth during his first football game, endangering those around him, Alaric realizes that it's not so easy to ignore his past, or his own internalized anger. In his quest for anger management, Alaric begins to train in taekwondo, and makes new friends in both sports. He finds that he is creating his own small community, where Clan, Mages, other Talents, and even humans come together and build their own found family. When Alaric receives news that something has happened to his brother Orson, he must return and deal with his Clan and his place in their world. He discovers that old prejudices are still strong between Clan and Mage communities, but that both may be in danger from a creature long thought to be only a legend. Alaric must figure out how to move forward and prevent a war and protect both his home and newly built communities, his found family with him every step of the way.

To solve the problem of now… Remember what lies behind… Pass through your hopes and fears… …to the final outcome. Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she's a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards. But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn's own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She's seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea's brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war. Carolyn shouldn't get involved-doesn't want to get involved-but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can't imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn't sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.