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New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2005.
Before Hurricane Katrina, the Jetson Youth Correctional Center struggled with overcrowding.
After the storm, the problem became impossible to ignore. The state quietly responded by creating the Arcane Delinquent Rehabilitation Initiative (ADRI), a secret juvenile program where convicted teenagers could earn their freedom by hunting the supernatural horrors now lurking throughout Louisiana's flooded wilderness. Every monster killed shortens a sentence. Every failure carries a price.
Among its recruits are three teenage convicts:
Shiloh Aroha, a seventeen-year-old part-time demon slayer desperate to escape her suffocating home life.
Remy Salazar, an eighteen-year-old half-demon hybrid who finds human bureaucracy more exhausting than the dead.
Prue Beaumont, a kindhearted seventeen-year-old witch whose quiet demeanor conceals a dangerous past.
When they're not hunting monsters, ADRI requires its recruits to attend classes and court-ordered therapy inside a battered community center that's been converted into a temporary school. Between occult lessons, counseling sessions, and weapons drills, everyone is expected to pretend life is slowly returning to normal.
Until one of their classmates is murdered.
The administration calls it an accident. The police are kept at arm's length. Students are warned to keep their mouths shut and move on, but the victim had been digging into something hidden beneath the community center's polished routine.
As another student vanishes and whispers spread through the hallways, Shiloh, Remy, and Prue uncover a trail of missing records, sealed rooms, and half-forgotten disappearances stretching back long before Katrina. Every answer points to a secret someone inside ADRI is willing to kill to protect.
Make no mistake - they aren't looking to play heroes or clean up messes. But if exposing the school's dark secrets is the only way to earn a clean slate, then so be it.