Author: Brittaney Barfield

Brittaney Barfield is the author of speculative mystery for teen readers, centered on Black students, science, and campus life. Tapped By Legacy opens the W.X Series and follows Brielle, an eighteen-year-old science student beginning college at Arceneaux Way University, a technologically advanced historically Black institution. Brielle's interest in an unexplained substance intersects with questions about her mother's time at the university and the W.X Society, an elite organization whose history reaches into her family. The novel combines a first-year college transition with futuristic laboratories, secret-society intrigue, and a search for reliable answers among competing loyalties. Barfield published the book independently in 2023, with retailer records classifying it for younger readers and identifying it as the first W.X volume. Tapped By Legacy is consequently both Brielle's personal investigation and the introduction to a broader series world. Its HBCU setting and science-focused protagonist give the familiar campus mystery a specific cultural and technological frame.