Beautiful Venom

The protagonist arrives at an elite college campus with a single goal, infiltrating The Vipers, the hockey team that runs a secret society from inside the locker room and the alumni network. Kane Davenport is the team captain and reads as the only player on the roster who is not part of the corruption, which makes him the obvious entry point for the infiltration plan. The plan flips inside the first month. Kane is the most dangerous predator in the entire den, the friendly captain persona is a calculated front, and what the protagonist planned as a revenge play turns into a deadly game with a man she catastrophically misread. Kent opens the Vipers series with the predator-prey reversal at full register and the BookTok-cult heat that built her self-published backlist.