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Jack Jenkins is a normal college student living in a world filled with super powered beings. Until one fateful day in the library throws his whole life into chaos. An ancient and beguiling cosmic visitor bonds with him, granting him extraordinary abilities. The only catch: he has to earn his powers like he was in a video game. And he has to learn on the fly.

Heroes are the worst. Jim Riven would know—he used to be one. Now he just wants to run his crumbling old bar and be left alone. Beer and chicken wings don’t try to vaporize him. Well, not since that one time. But when remnants of his old life come calling, they bring the one reason he can’t ignore. Lock, a hero who died fighting for the Spectrum world’s premier hero team may not be so dead after all. But if she’s alive, where has she been?

Gabrielle’s younger sisters have arrived on Mars City! Despite their angelic appearance, Ariel and Michelle are a pair of troublemakers who are constantly arguing and seem intent on causing more mayhem for Alex, Gabrielle, and everyone else involved. They have also been set up in an arranged marriage to the same man. Naturally, that means Alex is going to protect them from the machinations of their father. That’s what heroes are supposed to do, after all. But unbeknownst to him, an even greater threat than fatherly schemes is lurking on Mars City.

Sam Meeko never thought that he’d ever get a superpower, especially one that allows him to smell everything. Everything. With his unconventional power, Sam joins forces with a group of women hellbent on getting to the bottom of a countrywide conspiracy. It’s going to take some thinking outside the box, and when that doesn’t work, Sam and his group might need to tear the walls down.

Eighteen-year-old Martin Kilborne is a mundane human and self-made supervillain. Armed with his late uncle's beat-up van and a talent for swindling and forgery, he infiltrates the Omnithean Superstate. Posing as grieving, orphaned, half-blood student Alexander Glock, he scams his way into Skyfall Academy—an elite school filled with privileged cryptids—on a quest for vengeance.

More than a year after she helped save the world from the Sparnaxian invasion, Andrea Vernon is in a good place. Her boss is giving her greater responsibility and she’s getting to travel a lot (although her fill-in is hopeless at making coffee); things could be getting even more serious with her 8’ 4” superhero boyfriend, The Big Axe; and she has a really fun new BFF, Never More. Small issue, though, with that last item - Never More is a supervillain bent on world domination, and it looks as if nothing can stop her.

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