Cassie Kent has been a superhero for two years-long enough to know a cape doesn't make the world safer or simpler. Chicago is loud, chaotic, always teetering on disaster. She spends most days airborne, extinguishing literal and figurative fires. She works alone by choice, avoiding teams, politics, and especially the Guardians of the Globe. Their repeated offers and polished speeches can't shake her gut feeling: something's off. Trust, she's learned, gets people hurt. Off-duty, her life is painfully ordinary. She lives with her older cousin Clark, who tries to carve out some normalcy-though "normal" was never on the table. School is tolerable noise and expectations; she's not popular, not invisible. Sharp-tongued, stubborn, and unapologetically herself, Cassie doesn't bother impressing anyone-especially not her annoying neighbor, Mark Grayson. Mark is irritating in a specific way: awkward, nerdy, stubbornly convinced they're friends despite her reminders they're not. He tries too hard, asks too many questions, orbiting her life like a persistent moon. She dismisses him as background noise she'll forget after graduation. Then Mark confesses he has powers. One revelation shatters her carefully built walls. Mark isn't just a weird kid-he's dangerous, unpredictable, tied to a larger story neither asked for. It pulls Cassie into events she wanted no part of: uncovering the truth about Mark's father, realizing one of the world's greatest heroes might be its biggest threat, and accepting that staying sidelined isn't an option anymore. As secrets unravel and good vs. evil blurs, Cassie must question everything-heroism, trust, herself. Working alone keeps her safe, but it won't save the world. Teaming up with people she doesn't trust may be the only way to stop what's coming.

Is anyone listening? KYLE RAYNER © 𝖇𝖆𝖞𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖘

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❝ I am both the sacrificial lamb and the executioner. The scapegoat and the swordslayer. ❞ 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛: Lyra Reyes was born to be a hero, that is until the weight of the world begins to squish her dreams and she has to confront truths that she is not ready to face yet. She grew up side by side with Mark Grayson, who will become just like her, a hero that looses more than he can bear. Together they discover that true heroism isn't about saving everyone-No. It's about learning to live with the consequences.