To the public, Academy 0001 doesn't exist. To the shadow government, it is a meat grinder built to forge untraceable black-ops units under a single, brutal doctrine: Creation Through Destruction.Roxy Seven was supposed to be their ultimate asset. Orphaned at four years old in a targeted house fire, she was raised in total isolation by the Academy’s greatest living legend. She arrives at the facility with his exact, hyper-lethal muscle memory wired directly into her brain. She isn't a recruit to be broken—she is a fully realized weapon, a master of blades, and a dangerous rogue element who completely embraces the monster she had to become to survive.Her presence completely disrupts the system, especially when she collides with Zandro. He is the Academy's reigning alpha, a fellow legacy brawler whose back is a canvas of whipping scars, and a man who handles his trauma with severe touch aversion and pure, territorial rage. Forced to navigate a series of corrupt, last-man-standing survival gauntlets known as the Trials alongside a reckless combat prodigy and a silent protector sniper, Roxy and Zandro must decide if they will destroy each other for survival, or burn the entire facility to the ground together.