Derelict Presence

War is on the horizon. Liberty's brutal assault on the East Coast and the slaughter of Pandora's leadership has thrown the world into chaos. Heroes scramble to react, and Sonya's young aspirants stand on the brink of their first true battles. Sonya knows better than anyone: every plan fails...

The world needs more heroes. Sonya is running out of time to make them. The world is still reeling from the destruction in Vegas and the death of Firestorm, a rising hero cut down too soon. People are adapting, but the true storm is still coming. Liberty, yet another of Otis's future Heralds...

To save the world, Sonya must become its greatest hero—and its darkest villain. The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. Sonya Chernovna returns to the...