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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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ISBN9781529443721
PublisherQuercus Publishing Plc
Publication Date10/08/26
Pages496

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  • kims.bookshelf
    kims.bookshelf

    108 Followers

    4.0

    4.25⭐️

    This was so much fun, loved the Academy Setting and the found Family. Also really liked the FMC even though she annoyed me sometimes. That ending had me on the Edge of my seat, i‘m really looking forward for book two👀

    May 1, 2026

  • beautyandthebook
    beautyandthebook

    164 Followers

    5.0

    HIGHLIGHT !!!!! Ich mochte das Setting super gerne. Hatte zeitweise eine urban Fantasy Flair und das fand ich mega toll. Auch die vibes zwischen den Charakteren war toll: habs sehr geliebt. Viel Spannung, Action und viele Monster.

    Mar 26, 2026

  • purrsome.pages
    purrsome.pages

    57 Followers

    5.0

    Dämonenjäger und ihre Dämonen

    Oh wow, das war gut. Wie ein erwachsenes Shadowhunters. Tolle Charaktere, zwischenmenschlichen Konflikte, Action und Drama - alles in einem. Der Schreibstil und das Tempo haben mir sehr gut gefallen, auch wenn ich wirklich oft über die FMC den Kopf geschüttelt habe (einfach weil ich andere Entscheidungen getroffen hätte - zu ihr passte es aber, kleiner Hitzkopf 😂). Mir hat außerdem gut gefallen, dass sie Romance sich langsam aufgebaut hat und auch eher ein subplot war - passte gut! Das Ende war .. fies. Und verwirrend. Und ich habe Fragen. Kann den zweiten Band also kaum erwarten 😂

    Dämonenjäger und ihre Dämonen

    Jun 11, 2026

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chiarabcoMay 5, 2026

"That was our first kiss, huntress. Not our last." 🤭🤭🤭

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