The Slum Heirs

*DUE TO BEING PUBLISHED SOON, ONLY THE FIRST 3 CHAPTERS OF THE SLUM HEIRS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON WATTPAD*

Nearly a decade ago, a string of freak tornadoes destroyed Queens, and now it is home to the slums of New York City. Filled with drug dealers, gangs, and escaped convicts, it's not the sort of place a typical seventeen-year-old girl from the Upper East Side normally finds herself.

Enter Mikaela Clearwater, typical girl extraordinaire. Between acing every test at school, making regular appearances at Clearwater Consolidated parties, and enduring the arranged relationship her father forced upon her, she has always felt trapped in her life. When her "boyfriend" tries to push their fake relationship too far, Mikaela flees from him and winds up in the Slums. After being rescued from a near-mugging, she finds herself drawn into a gang of thieves led by a boy called Dai with striking green eyes, hair black as the night sky and a smile that aggravates her to no end.

Soon, she is living two lives: the fake Manhattan life she's grown up in, and the reckless, completely inappropriate life that comes with being a member of the Bulwarks. It's not until Mikaela learns the history of how the Bulwarks came to live in the Slums that she realizes her ties to them run deeper than a simple rescue. Her father put them there, and Dai and his Bulwarks will stop at nothing to get their revenge. Now Mikaela is faced with an impossible task: keeping the Bulwarks from discovering her true identity, and the ties she has to the man who destroyed their lives.