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Half City

Kate Golden · Fantasy · 496 pages

54 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

enemies to loversdark academiaslow burnfound familymagic academyforbidden romance
dark academiaenemies to lovers
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#32 This Month · #97 All Time

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**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 just 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 when 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, and fast. All while trying to ace her classes, not fall for a demon, and make it through her first year at Harker in one piece. How hard could that be?

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