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Jude Miller was the mascot of his friend group. The guy you send on beer runs. The invisible man.

Then he took a bullet to the head in a gas station robbery.

Usually, that's the end of the story. For Jude, it was just the orientation seminar.

In 2025, superheroes are incorporated. Titan sells barbecue sauce. Ironclad films insurance commercials. The world is safe, the merchandise is moving, and nobody talks about what's crawling out of the cracks.

Hell is leaking. And the corporate heroes are too worried about Q3 earnings to notice.

Enter the Angelic Council. They don't need a hero, they need a contractor.

Jude wakes up in a fluorescent-lit Purgatory, offered a deal by a cynical case manager named Bob: Stay dead, or clock back in. But Heaven doesn't hire heroes. It hires expendable assets. And the contract has fine print.

Now Jude's back in Philly with a divine quota to fill, a weapon forged from holy fire, and a GPA that's circling the drain. He has to hunt demons, lie to his friends, and save a world that never noticed he existed.

Every hero has an origin story. Jude just has a job.