The deal was brokered by New Leaf Literary & Media and attorney Melissa Rogal on behalf of Tracy Deonn, and Michael Heimler and Adam Raichilson on behalf of Black Bear. Henderson is represented by manager, Darryl Taja at Epidemic, and attorney, Mark Stankevich. Schwarzman, Christopher Casanova and Sleena Wilson will oversee for Black Bear with Henderson and Deonn exec producing alongside Darryl Taja, Ben Stillman, and Pouya Shahbazian.īlack Bear Television is working on series including Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times with Phoebe Dynevor starring, adaptations of Brandon Cronenberg’s feature Possessor and Kate Quinn’s novel The Rose Code and Scott Cooper’s Angels & Demons based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article. It comes from Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Television, which will shop the series to networks and streamers in the coming weeks. The followup Bloodmarked will be released in November. It is the first installment in a trilogy of books and spent nine weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first-without losing herself in the process.'The Banks' Roxane Gay Adapting Graphic Novel As TV Series For New Regency & TKO Studios But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death.

When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped.īree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. Now, Bree has become someone new:īut the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. The book follows Bree, a young Black woman whose mother recently died in an accident. It spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and won a Coretta Scott King Award/John Steptoe Award for New Talent award, among other accolades. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights-only to discover her own ancestral power. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn is a YA fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy, that came out in 2020. The shadows have risen, and the line is law.Īll Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. The “worthy successor to an explosive debut” ( Kirkus Reviews)-the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Legendborn-perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare and Margaret Rogerson! “Deonn writes…stories that humanize Black protagonists, like Bree, giving them agency and a place to both fail and, ultimately, to ascend.” - Booklist (starred review)

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