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Meet Jessica Jones: retired superhero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK.

Wanda and Wumble are a small pair with vast ambitions. One an aspiring alchemist, and the other her faithful hound, the pair bond as wizard and familiar to begin their pursuit of magic. As a newly made wizard without any training, resources, or even a home to return to, Wanda will have to forge her own way on a path where constant dangers lurk. Even the simple act of furthering her alchemy education swiftly becomes a harrowing ordeal.

No evildoers have tried to flatten Peter Parker in weeks. His marriage to Mary Jane is stronger than ever, and he's enjoying his job as a high-school science teacher. Life is good. Naturally, that doesn't last. When Peter learns that his old enemy, the Rhino, is on a rampage in Times Square, he suits up as Spider-Man to stop the destructive villain in his tracks. But he's unexpectedly foiled in his attempts by the Black Cat, a former ally and old flame. The Cat informs Peter that the Rhino is just a distraction - the real threat comes from a group of Ancients.

Eighteen-year-old Aidan Salt isn't a superhero. With his powerful (and unpredictable) telekinetic abilities, he could be one if he wanted to, but he doesn't. He's unambitious, selfish, and cowardly, and he doesn't want to have to deal with all the paperwork required to become a professional superhero. But since the money, fame, and women that come with wearing the cape are appealing, he decides to become the first supervillain the world has seen in more than 20 years: Apex Strike.

As a private eye in New York City, it’s Jessica Jones’s job to investigate humanity’s worst, unleashed impulses. Possessing superhuman strength and endurance does nothing to help her process other people’s tragedies, much less her own slate of unresolved traumatic issues. Realizing drinking and hitting things is no way to cope with her problems—no matter how much fun it is—Jessica gives therapy a try. But she finds it hard to look after herself when so many people need help.

Samantha Havardson is not an Apex. She’s completely ordinary with a totally normal family that just happens to moving to the Apex epicenter of the world- the manmade island city of New Delos. Although she thinks her lack of super Apex abilities will keep her out of the limelight, it quickly becomes apparent that the city has different plans, sweeping Samantha up in a world of secret identities and super powers where anyone, even those closest to her, might be an Apex.

In this short story from the novel, “SuperHero- Retirement”, recently retired Arch-Villains can’t help themselves. It’s so good to be bad.

Six college friends are at the end of their junior year. They have been friends since orientation and rent a house together. Early on, they discovered that none of them was interested in partying, since half were exchange students who were more serious than the average college student was. They banded together to use their vacations to go on adventures looking for lost fragments of history. For the summer before becoming seniors, they decided to spend part of their vacation looking for a legendary necklace, last mentioned in an obscure, medieval text. The necklace was called The Apocalypse ...

Struck by lightning, developing new superpowers, and pursued by a power-hungry secret military group who wants to force her into being a weapon of mass destruction...it's so not the birthday week that high school senior Chloe Olivetti was hoping for. In this sci-fi thriller, a high school senior is the accidental target of a top-secret weapons test and afterwards she develops amazing powers, including the ability to see in the dark, look through walls, and transport herself through space and time. Now the Army has kidnapped her so they can recreate the experiment and build an unstoppable ...

Belial, el superhombre empieza sus aventuras esta vez en Atlantis. Es un mercenario que se vende al mejor postor. A través del camino irá descubriendo cosas de su naturaleza fantástica. Con la ayuda de: un mago, un rey y un solado intentará recuperar un reino.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, retired SuperHeroes Trisha & Winston learn the hard way why their daughter told them not to give her kids sugar, while they babysat them as she went off to save the world.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, recently retired SuperHeroes battling their fiercest Arch-Villain . . . Boredom, commensurate at a weekly picnic about the good and bad times.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, not happy with where their relationship is going, a SuperSorceress gives her SuperBoyfriend some SuperMotivation.

In this story from the novel SuperHero Retirement, Retired SuperHeroes reveal to their squire one of the greatest advantages Supers have with regard to romance is there's no such thing as a lover who's Geographically Undesirable.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, when a recently retired SuperHero in his Alternative Identity meets his daughter’s father-in-law to be sparks fly.

In this short story from the novel “SuperHero – Retirement”, a recently retired SuperHero gives a young SuperHero lessons on humility.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, retired SuperHeroes discover a teen with Super abilities, who for secretive family reasons is unable to attend the SuperCharterSchool. So, they decide to train him.

It’s 1975, and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx”, Triumph's first female hero.

When a down-on-his-luck engineer ends up coming into possession of a rundown suit of power-armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash by selling it off to the nearest supervillain. Unfortunately for him, what should have been a quick and easy sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that serve only to drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home.

At 72, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: he's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African American family that has been gifted with superpowers that are a bit, well, odd. Okay, very odd. For example, Johnny's father could see colors no one else could see. His brother could scale perfectly flat walls. His cousin belches fire. And Johnny himself can make precise maps of any space you name, whether he's been there or not.