Shape of Power: Awakening: 1

Trip Bradford has spent her whole life learning the rules of the Bradford family. Some are strange. Some are terrifying. And some are never spoken aloud.For generations, the Bradfords have carried extraordinary powers through their bloodline - along with a curse rooted in a dark secret from 1626. Every child knows that on their eighteenth birthday, at the exact moment of their birth, a power will awaken. But Trip is beginning to realize her family has been hiding far more than the nature of their abilities.Strange things are happening around her. Mirrors move out of sync with reality. Frost appears where it shouldn't. Dreams carry messages from places she can't name. A mysterious girl appears in the fog - and something ancient seems to know Trip's name before she understands who she is.As her eighteenth birthday approaches, Trip starts questioning the rules that have governed her family for centuries. Why does an ancient family ledger already identify her by a name she wasn't given until childhood? What happened to the Bradford ancestor who first unleashed the family's curse? And who - or what - is the Collector waiting in the darkness?Caught between family secrets, supernatural forces, friendship, and a power she can't yet understand, Trip must decide whether to obey the rules that protected the Bradfords for generations, or uncover the truth buried beneath them.Because some inheritances are gifts.Others are curses.And some powers have been waiting for you long before you knew they existed.