The Indentured Hall

When seventeen-year-old Anika is trafficked from the impoverished plains of Valdoria to the glittering metropolis of Meridian City, she is not sold into a brothel but into Edgewood Academy — an elite institution whose marble halls hide a brutal finishing school for victims of a transnational ring. As Anika navigates the savage social hierarchies and predatory rituals of the school, she realizes that the campus is no sanctuary but a microcosm of adult exploitation. With her past erased and her future hanging by a thread, she must master the rules of a merciless power game to break the chain from within, rewriting her destiny in a world where the classroom is the first battleground of survival.