Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp, and your wits even sharper.
Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn’t even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother’s approval.
She also happens to be a demon hunter.
Ever since her father's murder, she's been forced to hunt deviants alone, meaning everyone, including her family, sees her as an outsider . . . until the day she crosses paths with a dangerously alluring demon, Reid Graveheart. The reformed deviant tells her of a school for people just like her: Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. If she enrolls, she'll learn to hone her craft, work with other hunters, and never be alone again.
But Viv has a deadly secret. One that not even her new friends at Harker can know about, not if the school might hold the answers to untangling the mystery surrounding Viv's father’s death. When strange occurrences begin to plague the students, Viv will have to figure out who she can trust, all while trying to ace her classes, avoid falling for a demon, and make it through her first year at Harker in one piece. How hard could that be?
The series
In a city that hides monsters in plain sight, survival is not about strength alone, it is about secrets. The Harker Academy series opens with Half City, where Viv Abbot, a young woman burdened by grief and financial struggles, lives a double life. By day she is ordinary, by night she is a demon hunter, carrying the legacy of a father whose death left more questions than answers.
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Everything shifts when she crosses paths with Reid Graveheart, a reformed demon who lures her into a world she never imagined existed, a hidden academy built to train and protect those who walk the line between human and other. Within its walls, loyalty is tested, forbidden bonds spark, and shadows seem to whisper truths no one dares speak aloud.
What sets this series apart is its blend of dark academia atmosphere and urban fantasy grit. The halls of Harker are alive with danger, romance, and the promise of knowledge that comes at a price. Viv’s journey is not only about hunting demons but about confronting her own hidden nature, questioning who she can trust, and discovering whether belonging is worth the risks that come with it.
Mysterious, character-driven, and laced with slow-burning tension, Harker Academy is a story for readers who crave magic laced with danger, a heroine who is as flawed as she is fierce, and a world where every choice leaves a mark.
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