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The Don's Heir: A Campus Underworld

Seeking a fresh start, Avery Chen, the abandoned daughter of a well-known mafia lord, enrolls in a top university. Rather, she discovers she is in the middle of a dangerous network of academics and criminal activities. Avery draws the attention of campus golden boy Lucas Sterling as she is bullied for her family ties but she politely denies his interest. Expert assassin Avery pays for her schooling by means of high-stakes operations. Her world meets Lucas's when she finds out he is in charge of a competitor criminal group. As Lucas and his estranged brother Damien come to see Avery could be the key to bringing their disparate groups together, Avery must negotiate her feelings, her mission, and the dangerous underground of college organized crime. Avery battles to find the truth about her father's desertion and create her own path, therefore her particular abilities both help and hinder her. Will Avery be swallowed by the criminal underworld in a society where loyalties shift like sand?

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The Shadows Within

The campus was silent as Avery, still reeling from Calder's warning, strolled alone through the dark hallways. Calder's words resounded in her mind: a monster, a source of chaos. It sounded like a twisted nightmare, in which she became everything she detested. Even as she tried to throw it off, a calm anxiety crept into her coronary heart.

Her smartphone suddenly buzzed in her pocket, interrupting the silence. It transformed into Lucas.

"Avery, wherein are you?" His voice sounded strained, as if he had been protecting something weighty.

"I'm on my way back." Why?"

There was a delay on the other end, and then she heard it—the controlled part in his tone. "Simply get returned. Now."