The Prey Grounds

At St. Ashford Academy, a prestigious boarding school in the nation of Valdoria, the halls echo with privilege and ambition. But beneath its gilded surface, a shadow network operates with chilling precision: selecting, grooming, and trafficking the most vulnerable students into a transnational ring stretching from the impoverished continent of Boratha to the glittering cities of Valdoria. When a transfer student from a fractured home vanishes during a campus "cultural exchange" night, an unlikely alliance of survivors begins to unravel the conspiracy. They discover that the academy's predatory hierarchy is not a distortion of the adult world—it is its perfect rehearsal. In this realm, every betrayal is a lesson, every silence a survival strategy, and the fight to escape becomes a reckoning with a system designed to consume them.