Owen is a master thief. He's been thieving for 20 years now. His hands have grown nimble, quick and undetectable. His feet have grown light, fast and flexible. His mind has grown sharp and developed an edge with the cruelty of a knife. He's happy. He's fickle. He's Owen.
Carr is an assassin. She knows how to kill without a trace, without one drop of blood. She's been in the trade for 23 years now. And in the secret cult of assassins underground, hers is a name no one wants to mar their tongues with.
Ruz is an arsonist. He sees the world as a collection of buildings to be burnt down. Fire is him. He is fire. The only color he sees is black - the black of ash. For 21 years of his life, he'd burnt buildings down, set fires and watched their tongues lick up and down iron and steel, sweat and heart alike.
But Owen, Carr and Ruz are people whose lives sit on a precarious balance. All it takes to make their fortresses come crumbling down is each other.
Ripples follow every wave. And sometimes, these ripples can wreak more damage than the wave itself can.
They've made their waves. Now, it's time for the Ripple Effect.
After she tragically loses her mother, Cassie turns to street fighting-but she soon learns that the biggest fights happen outside the ring.
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Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Haynes has never been one to follow the rules. Constantly on the brink of expulsion at school, she doesn't care what anyone thinks about her. But when tragedy strikes and she is left alone to care for her little sister, Cassie needs to find a way to survive and quick. Without telling a single soul, she moves to the next city over and turns to the only thing she knows--the illegal sport of street fighting. As her fights get grittier and more dangerous, Cassie finds out that there are even more people out for her blood. She'll do anything to protect her little sister and some people are about to learn the hard way.
Content and/or Trigger Warning: attempted suicide in Chapter 2.
[[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]
Link to the sequel - https://www.wattpad.com/story/29778845-the-mystery-fighter-ii
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