Half City (Harker Academy #1)
Kate Golden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
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Open door [?]
· 20 ratings · 494 pages · Published: 17 Feb 2026
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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- demons 6
- urban fantasy 6
- paranormal 5
- forbidden love 4
- fantasy 3
- mystery 2
- found family 2
- enemies to lovers 2
- new adult 2
- magic 2
- m-f romance 2
- college 2
- early 20s fmc 2
- non-human hero 2
- 100+ years old mmc 2
- teacher/coach hero 2
- contemporary 1
- monsters 1
- age gap 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- praise kink 1
- competent heroine 1
- independent heroine 1
- dangerous heroine 1
- bodyguard/protector heroine 1
- possessive hero 1
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- graphic violence 1
- mental trauma 1
- past abuse 1
- Format
- audiobook
- first person pov 3
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The 'Harker Academy' series
4.21 · 20 ratings
fantasy · new adult · audiobook · urban fantasy · found-family · college · independent heroine · praise-kink · monsters · possessive hero · age difference · mystery · dangerous heroine · early-20s-fmc · mental-trauma · graphic-violence · demons · open-door · non-human-hero · past-abuse
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