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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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Unraveling Realities

the gateway to the underground tunnels opened before them, an abyss of impenetrable blackness. As Avery made her initial stride into the abyss, she could not shake the impression that the whole lot end up approximately to shift. 

For higher or for worse, the search for the Nexus Key had began. 

Avery and Lucas plunged into the labyrinth beneath Blackthorn, their headlights creating creepy shadows on the antiquated barriers. The air grew thick with concern and the musty perfume of forgotten secrets and procedures and schemes. 

"We ought to split up," Lucas replied, his voice echoing throughout the cramped hallway. "cowl greater floor." 

Avery stopped, the Architect's admonition ringing in her ears. "I do now not recognize if this is an extraordinary concept." 

Lucas's gaze met hers, a blend of self-control and some thing else she couldn't pretty discern. "We do not have an alternative. Time's running out."