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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?

The Don's Heir: A Campus Underworld

While the sun set on Blackthorn University, Avery couldn't shake the feeling that their best journey — and most challenging challenge — was still ahead.

Little did she know how quickly that challenge would arrive.

The first tremor struck just as Avery and her companions were walking slowly back to their dorms, exhausted from their multiversal struggle. At first, they assumed it was simply tiredness making them wobbly. However, the ground lurched again, this time more violently.

"Earthquake?" Lucas inquired, his voice tight with struggle.

Before anyone could react, the sky lit up with a strange, pulsing brightness. Avery's heart sank as she recognized the apparent signs of truth fracturing.

"No," she whispered. "It can't be."

However it turned out. All around them, the material in their world began to tear. Fissures in the air reveal visions of other worlds past, some familiar, some completely bizarre.

The Choice