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Brought to you by Penguin. A GLITTERING NEW COSY MYSTERY STARRING EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE DRAG QUEEN TURNED AMATEUR SLEUTH, MISTY DIVINE... Photographer Jeremy Edmunds has vanished without a trace. Last known location? Soho. As the owner of Lady’s Bar, no one knows the city – and its secrets...

Lacey Kennedy. A seemingly ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, but she possesses one unique ability, she can move things with her mind. Telekinesis. A superpower she’s learned to keep under lock and key and in doing so, she's taken on the role of a protector of sorts, seizing crime wherever she can. But a new vigilante moves into town and she has to decide whether or not he's a villain or the kryptonite that could destroy everything she holds dear: her heart. Will they become a superhero duo the city desperately needs or will the stakes be too high for either of them to survive?

Tess McBray was dying. The solstice syndrome had no cure, and she resigned herself to an early grave. But just when she gave up on survival, all her symptoms mysteriously disappeared. All but one symptom, anyway. Something is wrong with Tess’ hands. They absorb any material they touch, and her skin turns to wood, steel, or concrete. It doesn’t take this comic book obsessed 21-year-old long to figure out what’s going on: somehow, she’s developed super powers. And she’s not the only one; across the country, people are coming forward and sharing their gifts with the world.

Amelia is fresh from her victory over ARC when a massive hurricane strikes New Orleans. In the aftermath, a pile of bodies is found and all evidence points to the Wraith as the perpetrator. Has the killer of evil lost her grip on reality and started murdering indiscriminately? Or is there something even more dangerous in the world than the Wraith? With every superhero in North America gunning for Madisun Dumas, Arsenal has to race against the clock and stand up to her own teammates to prove the vigilante's innocence.

They're too "gross and nasty" for the shiny superhero leagues, but these mutant kids aren't giving up. Armed with their bizarre powers, they're taking on the "petty" criminals of the city, proving that even rejects can be heroes – and maybe even earn a little respect (or at least the title).

Sally and George, brother and sister, move to Cape Street with their adoptive parents. On their first night, they witness an alien overlord, General Swipe, round up humans and imprison superheroes. Ash, their new friend, leads them to the Hero Agency, a clandestine bureau for failed superheroes. Together, they form a plan to save the day.

Radha makes an attempt at rescuing Shabana from her abductor but ends up doing much more than that. She meets the women being trafficked. Her suspicions of Leo are taking her nowhere. She decides to give him another chance and finds herself agreeing to take him along to see her aunts in Pune...

Kumar reveals a major secret about Radha's life and her world is turned upside down. She is about to leave to go visit her long lost family when the college scam plot thickens and she needs to interfere and save the college. In the meantime Leo realizes who she is and plans to abduct her...

Upon reaching home it is realized that Kumar's actions were out of worry for Radha. On the way Leo has disclosed the entire trafficking racket. Radha and her aunts plan for the rescue of the girls being taken to England and embark upon it. Radha meets the famous Mr. Fry and discovers an ancient...

The story of Radha's ancestors continues and Radha is in awe. However, she also learns some inconvenient truths about her mother. Radha discovers a strange structure in the property. Upon realizing that Kumar has kept Shabana bound in his house, Radha, her aunts and Leo all leave for Bombay...

Radha meets her aunts, Ayeasha, Alana and Meera and Meera's girlfriend, Pri at their massive property on the outskirts of Pune. Radha learns the full extent of Leo's doings.Radha learns a heartwarming secret about Kumar and her relation but Kumar makes a shady deal with Vijay and keeps Shabana...

Leo starts feeling depressed because of the long-standing curse on men who love women from Radha's family…he will self-destruct if he stays with her. Radha is told the fascinating story of her ancestors and how the women of the house came to have their powers...

Leo's true purpose of being in Bombay is revealed as he speaks to Mr. Fry. Radha learns more of the sinister plot and starts getting a sense of the enormity of the fight that's coming. At the same time, Radha and Leo are falling head over heels in love when she is hit with a realization that he...

We meet Radha, a girl with super-powers while she saves a young woman from some goons. But just as she thinks she has won, she realizes something bigger and much more sinister is at play. As she is gearing up to unearth the mystery, she meets Leo, the handsome British man who is enticing and...

Radha, found by the women she saved, is revived. Radha joins her aunts to save the rest of the women. Leo loses his life in front of her eyes. In an epic fight in the Ghats between Mumbai and Pune, Radha and her aunts finally face-off Fry and his vicious men. Who will win? Who will lose? What...

Radha investigates Vijay and learns of a sex trafficking racket in which a British man is involved. In college she stumbles upon another scam where the college property is being sold to a builder. By following a corrupt Property Tax official involved in the scam she finds Vijay's connection...

Welcome to Legacy City, America’s nightmare. Poverty and pain are the norm, the local cops and politicians are corrupt, the crime families rule with an iron fist, and they are all profiting from a ravenous new drug called “The Trip”, which has been tearing its way through lower-class neighborhoods. Just when all hope seems lost, a real-life vigilante shows up and begins raising Hell one block at a time. His name…The Illegal.

This is the first story in a series of ongoing adventures of Real Life Superhero, The Foil. Set in the urban neighborhood of Garden Park, this gritty crime story is not a graphic novel or comic book. In LITTLE RED CORVETTE, The Foil finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish ‘Moffat’ gang when he protects two young teens from a beating by local mobster, Charlie Gibbons. Gibbons enlists the help of his old friend Tom Bock, who has just returned to Garden Park after 15 years in exile to frame The Foil in a drug deal.