But then an unexpected visit from his friend and periodic lover, CIA assistant director Holly Barker, draws Stone into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance, against an enemy with plans bigger than they could ever imagine. ...;Stone Barrington returns to the Big Apple in this thrilling novel from
Collateral Damage
β Scribed by Taylor Simonds
- Book ID
- 110685709
- Publisher
- The Parliament House
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781953539236
- ASIN
- B08GSWDVSL
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Featured in Writer's Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Hypable, and MuggleNet.
"A spunky and jubilant love letter to superhero fans."
-Kirkus Reviews
Power. Courage. Invincibility. The marks of a true hero.
Meg Sawyer has none of these things.
Meg has never stopped a moving bus with her bare hands, been bitten by a radioactive insect, or done anything moderately resembling saving the world. She doesn't have to. She's a background citizen, a nobody, one of the swarms of faceless civilians of Lunar Cityβwhere genetically enhanced superhumans straight out of the comics have thwarted evil for years.
For as long as the Supers have existed, Meg has had one goal: to not become a casualty in their near-daily battles for justice. And for the last seventeen years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but she's not dead yet.
But when Meg accidentally finds one of the city's perfect, invincible protectors murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances, her whole "innocent bystander" strategy falls apart. After being coerced by his determined girlfriend into a mission to help prevent the deaths of the remaining Supers, Meg finds herself forced into the foreground of a story she never wanted to be part of-one that challenges everything she thought she knew about both her city and herself.
"Simonds writes smart and sassy characters but takes the time to give them emotional depth..."
-MuggleNet
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