Half City
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Feb 17, 2026
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This deluxe, first-edition trade paperback of Half City will feature beautifully stenciled edges and captivating interior cover art!
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?
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Mythological monsters stalk the streets of a city built around a chasm to the underworld in this action-packed if familiar romantasy series launch from Golden (If Not for My Baby). Born a hunter, Vivienne "Viv" Abbot spends her days working at the Windsor museum and her nights stalking demonic beings known as deviants. When she's offered a spot at Harker Academy for Deviant Defense, she's hesitant. Hunting solo has been working out just fine—never mind the fact that she's just barely maintaining her job and relationships—and Viv fears revealing herself as an aeon, a hunter with bloodlust so strong that when there are no deviants to kill, they turn on mortals. But the school may hold the truth about her father's murder, a possibility too tempting to pass up. Between keeping her identity hidden, hunting monsters, resisting her attraction to the dangerous Reid Graveheart, and untangling the conspiracy brewing at Harker, the tension stays high throughout. While Viv's world doesn't feel particularly fresh, the characters are fully realized, and all the loose threads come together neatly in the end. Both Viv's platonic and romantic relationships are well drawn, and she makes for a flawed but easy to root for protagonist. Paranormal romance readers will enjoy the fast-paced plot and sizzling chemistry.
