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?
