SAINTLESS

Seventeen-year-old June Marlowe survives a suicide attempt six days before graduation. He should feel lucky, instead he returns to school while haunted by prophetic dreams, mysterious memory gaps, and a stack of goodbye letters he doesn't remember writing . Then graduation day arrives and it goes horrendously wrong. The city needs someone to blame and everyone believes June caused it.

Branded a dangerous superhuman, he is imprisoned in Halcyon Center, a facility built to contain the world's most dangerous supervillains. He watches his future disappear overnight: the public brands him a monster. Friends become strangers. The world moves on.

Then a man named Sunday breaks him out. Sunday claims to be building a revolution, a world where heroes are treated like people instead of products, a world where villains aren't manufactured to maintain the system. A world where the truth matters. June doesn't know if he believes him.

But when everyone else has already decided you're a villain, joining one may be your only option.

[ a superheroxsupervillain story for a dear friend. Happy birthday! 02.05.26.]