"Agent East-excellence isn't optional here. At YMTA academy, one mistake can mean the end. Remember, there are no second chances."
East once had ordinary dreams-until the day she was recruited to YMTA, the world's most brutal military academy for prodigies and spies. From her very first drill to the hardest lessons, she faced discipline, danger, and heartbreak beyond anything imaginable. Pushed by merciless instructors, tested by impossible missions, and hardened by battle, she learned that pain is the cost of progress, and survival is the only success.
Now a spy unlike any other, East stands alone-juggling secret missions, tactical lessons, and a fragile double life between impossible heroics and fleeting moments of innocence. Broken bones, broken trust-this is a world where friendships are forged under fire, loyalty is earned in blood, and cold steel is sometimes the only comfort.
If you crave stories where courage rises from hardship, discipline outlasts dreams, and every chapter is a test of will, step into Agent East's journey-where warriors are forged from the unlikeliest souls, and the smallest hands can change the fate of nations. The stakes couldn't be higher. This is your next mission.
[Editors' Choice 2020]
In a near-future, post-apocalyptic world, a lone girl must choose between becoming the next-in-line to head a corrupt government or siding with those who wish to see the world burn. Order, suppression and lies, or chaos, truth and freedom? Whatever is chosen, one thing is clear: both sides bleed.
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Every year, the Federated United Americas tasks its elite soldiers to participate in a nation-wide Cull. Hundreds of children are taken from homes and put into one of three Facilities. While most of them will be offered comfortable lives in the forms of low-ranking government jobs and militia commandos, a few will be groomed to be the successors for the highest office the FUA has to offer: The Council.
Beckett Blake is known in the Facility as Ten, and she alongside six others branded 'Liars', have spent years enduring confinement and rigorous testing in order to secure a future as head of the FUA. When a terrorist group breaks into the Facility and kidnaps Ten and the others, she's forced to re-examine her future plans.
Required to become a drug runner in the mega-city known as Neon Brights, Ten must decide if the future she'd been promised since childhood is worth the lies it's built upon. Will Ten choose the future that's been decided for her, or will she carve out one all her own, even if that path leads to her destruction?
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