Before you start
MADISON OAKES IS A LOT OF THINGS.
She’s 23. She’s a big eater. She’s a powerful telekinetic. She’s the government-backed superhero “Heartforce,” trained since adolescence to join the ranks of the PHL. She’s second-generation, even, upholding her late father’s Hero legacy.
They’re also a butch, nonbinary trans lesbian, and their Hero team’s very first official ‘LGBTQ2+ Champion.’ Or at least they were, briefly, as a cynical PR move, before getting reassigned in Director Hagen’s obsessive schemes to infiltrate the supervillainous Korps… who don’t seem anything like what the sheep-bear’s always been told, actually.
Now she must choose: Does she want to be a part of Hagen’s machinations? Does she want to be a Hero at all? Motorcycling across Canada to find answers, is Maddy on a collision course — with her boss, coworkers, self-doubt, family secrets, Dad’s so-called ‘legacy,’ and eight hundred kilos of marble — that can only end in a CHANGE OF HEART?