by Hayden Thorne
Also available in paperback at amazon.comStrange things are happening in Vintage City,
and high school goth boy Eric seems to be right in the middle of them.
There’s a new villain in town, one with super powers, and he’s wreaking
havoc on the town, and on Eric’s life. The new super hero who springs
up to defend Vintage City is almost as bad, making Eric all hot and
bothered, enough so that he almost misses the love that’s right under
his nose.
Peter is Eric’s best friend, and even if he does seem
to be hiding something most of the time, he finds a way to show Eric
how he feels in between attacks on trains and banks and malls. The two
boys decide to start dating, much to the chagrin of their other best
buddy, Althea, who has a terrible crush on Peter, and a secret or two
of her own to keep.
As the fight between the villain, known as
the Devil’s Trill, and superhero Magnifiman picks up, Eric’s
relationship with Peter almost ends before it begins when Eric finds
out about Peter’s special talents, which might just rank Peter as a
superhero in his own right. When the Trill takes an interest in Eric,
too, Peter and Althea, along with Magnifiman and Eric’s normal,
middle-class family all have to work together to keep Eric, and their
city, safe. Can they figure out the super villain’s plan in time?
Read A SampleGenre: Superheroes
Age Range: 14 and up
ISBN: 978-1-60370-356-7, 1-60370-356-X (trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-60370-481-6, 1-60370-418-7 (electronic book)
279 pages
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