SusanWard
⚠️ language, mild child abuse, violence
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Havenbrook City. A place where a nine o'clock curfew rules the night, and the streets crawl with aggressive, cast-out superhumans known as Deviates. Few know how they gain their powers. Even fewer survive an encounter.
Stevie Jones is lucky to be a survivor, though she would have died if it weren't for a Deviate blended with shadows swooping in and saving her from a violent mugging. But she's just trying to stay on the road her mother and late father paved for her. With a fresh scholarship and a spot in her dream university class, her academic future looks exceptionally bright. However, her life takes a sharp turn when she suddenly wakes up as a Deviate with no warning, no reason.
Desperate for answers, she'll turn to the Deviate who saved her life, hoping to keep her future on track before being a Deviate shatters everything-even if he's not the friendliest hero around...
Derek Harvard-mockingly called "Dark" by his roommate-is a Deviate in secret. And he hates it. Every day is a further struggle to keep his shadow-wielding power and bitter anger from dangerously colliding. His coping mechanism? Chasing his adrenaline rush by beating up the corrupt Deviates. When Stevie inserts herself into his lifestyle, he expects total hell. Instead, he discovers that her presence oddly quells the dark power teeming inside him, and it may be the only reason he's agreed to help her.
Together, this unlikely duo explore Havenbrook's dangerous underbelly, encountering jaw dropping truths, tangling with a flirty bō swinger, and facing down a ruthless syndicate of fire Deviates hired to tear them apart.
That is, if Stevie can balance all this action with home life and school. If she keeps poking around with trouble, both worlds may have to collide.
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Book cover by Zander! Twitter is @artizan00