Cursed City

<p><b>Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp, and your wits even sharper.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>She just also happens to be a demon hunter.<br><br>'Welcome to Half City, in which Kate Golden does nothing by halves: <b>full-throttle action, a twisty mystery, and a deliciously tense romance</b> make this an absolute romp. Our lead, Viv, is equal parts badass and messy, and her love interest may give you a thing for claws. <b>Absolutely fabulous action writing</b> by Golden, beautifully offset by a story about acceptance, belonging, and what it means to be human' - <i>Brigitte Knightley, author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy</i><br><br>'Kate Golden deftly fuses <b>a lush and bewitching dark academia setting</b>, complex characters, and a sizzling slow burn romance in <i>Half City</i>, <b>the unputdownable first installment </b>of a trilogy that will leave readers breathless' - <i>Julie Soto, author of Rose in Chains</i><br><br>'Packed with edge-of-your-seat action, steamy scenes that will set your curtains on fire, and some of the wittiest banter I've ever read, <i>Half City</i> is <b>the urban fantasy / dark academia book this Buffy fangirl has been waiting for all her life.</b> I don't know what sort of magic Kate Golden weaves into her books but I hope she never stops. The Harker Academy series is <b>my newest obsession</b>' - <i>Jenna Levine, author of Road Trip With a Vampire</i></p>