Hero in the Shadows

No one ever taught Stella Maris what to do if the world didn’t end.

Stella Maris was raised for the end of the world.

From infancy, her mother trained her to thrive after the apocalypse. She can fight, lead warbands, hunt, butcher animals, grow crops, forge, and make medicine from plants.

The world didn’t end.

It’s 1922. The Second Uranium War is over, the Holy Spanish Empire is imploding, and the rest of the world hangs on the brink, lurching from famine to economic crisis to moral crusade. Instead of ruling a wasteland, Stella finds herself amongst the first of a new evolution of humanity: sixteen year olds with superpowers.

When she discovers a conspiracy to kidnap and traffic superpowered teens, her investigation leads her into conflicts with the world’s first and most dangerous mega-corporation, assassins, cultists, criminals, police, aristocrats, and journalists. It takes her from the lows of London’s seedy underbelly to the highs of parliament and Westminster palace, and cements her reputation as not only the first ever vigilante superhero, but eventually as the founder of the Raptors of London.

What to expect

Marvel at the found family dynamics, dark humour, satirical social commentary, and cultural misunderstandings as a feral apocalypse‑prep girl learns how to be a person in a society she was never trained for!

Be astounded by the action, political intrigue, and myth-making as a punch-first-and-forget-to-ask-questions vigilante learns how to investigate from the world’s greatest detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Gasp in awe at the community-building, social relationships, and super-talent shows, as her mother leads 158 traumatised, superpowered teenagers into forming their own compound in an isolated valley in Wales!

Light-litrpg, levels and skills only. Superpowers, magic, magitech, alternative history, and historic figures blended together with layered world-building.

Also, there’s a dog, and he’s the bestest boy…

Contents

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Day Six

Day Seven

Day Eight

Day Nine

Day Ten

Day Eleven

Day Twelve

Day Thirteen

Day Fourteen

Day Fifteen

Day Sixteen

Day Seventeen

Day Eighteen

Day Nineteen

Day Twenty