Illuminate — L.L. Hunter

Emma Raine looks like your average eighteen-year-old. But she holds a secret deep within her. She is a magical being, a powerful queen of a faraway mythical land who fled her destiny. No one will ever know. And she'll kill you before you ever will. By day, Emma is a journalism intern in one of Sydney's top media companies. By night, she researches ways of keeping magic hidden, of keeping her world separate from the life she lives now. But something is stirring in the streets of the trendy Australian city. There are whispers of magic, and Emma must stop it before it takes hold. Her search leads her to the mysterious forests of New Zealand, the one place she swore she'd never return… and the man who rules it all. In the enticing first novel of the spin-off of the Dragon Heart Series, can Emma keep her magic hidden from the one man she thought she'd never see again? Or will his interest in her illuminate everything? You can't run from your destiny