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Harker Academy Book 1: Your Next Book Obsession By The Author Of A Dawn Of Onyx!
By Kate Golden
Series: Harker Academy Series
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Brief Description
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... Read More
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The extraordinary new series from bestseller KATE GOLDEN, perfect for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and True Blood!

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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?

Series: Harker Academy Series

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  • Half City
    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...
    By Kate Golden
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  • Cursed City
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    Cursed City
    Welcome back to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense, where the line between hunter and hunted has never been thinner. To rescue someone close to her, Viv Abbot must team up with Reid's violent, unpredictable older brother, Deacon. Her uneasy truce with him offers Viv something Reid never could: the chance to embrace her darkness. Viv's mission takes her to the...
    By Kate Golden
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    Out 6 Oct 2026

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529443691

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Arcadia Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 496

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About the Author

Kate Golden is the USA Today bestselling author of The Sacred Stones trilogy. She lives in Los Angeles where she works in the film industry developing movies with screenwriters and filmmakers. When she isn't telling stories, Kate is an avid book reader, puzzle addict, and game night enthusiast which she hosts with her husband and puppy, Milo. You can find her on Instagram at @KateGoldenAuthor and on TikTok at @Kate_Golden_Author.

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