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In a world where Olympus sits on the UN, vampires vacation in Macao, and Blockbuster delivers to Camelot, professional superheroes abound. More glamorous than Hollywood, exciting than pro sports, and profitable than both times ten, it's the industry everyone wants in on, and Maris Greensley is no exception. She wants in so badly, she agrees to work a whole year under superpowered criminal Deadline just to get a shot. Maris will break into superheroics, even if she has to break laws to do it.
Only, one problem: Deadline is having none of it. A premiere mercenary in the city's intergang power struggles, the only thing he can't terminate is Maris's employment. The standoff begins. As fights with spell-slinging gangsters, gwerewolves, and interdimensional hell beasts break out, Deadline aims to break the spirit countless rejections couldn't crush. Will he drive Maris out? Will Maris outlast Deadline? Or will time spent together show that Maris's dream of working with heroes might be closer than she thinks?
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
Cover designed by Ren T