Marion G Harmon

Wearing the Cape - Wearing the Cape Marion G Harmon

Marc Notes: Who wants to be a superhero? Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic--P. [4] of cover. Publisher Marketing: WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic. And now she has some decisions to make. Given the code-name "Astra" and invited to join the Sentinels, Chicago's premier super-team, will she take up the cape and mask and become a career superhero? Or will she get a handle on her new powers (super-strength has some serious drawbacks) and then get on with her life-plan? In a world where superheroes join unions and have agents, and the strongest and most photogenic ones become literal supercelebrities, the temptation to become a "cape" is strong. But the price can be high-especially if you're "outed" and lose the shield of your secret identity. Becoming a sidekick puts the decision off for awhile, but Hope's life is further complicated when The Teatime Anarchist, the supervillain responsible for the Ashland Bombing, takes an interest in her. Apparently as Astra, Hope is supposed to save the world. Or at least a significant part of it. ------------------------ Wearing the Cape is a 300-page superhero novel for anyone who ever loved comic-book heroes, and wonders how they might behave in the real world. Contributor Bio:  Harmon, Marion G Marion G. Harmon (Marion for his great-grandfather, George for his father), is a former financial advisor and sometime bagpipe player living in Las Vegas. Wearing the Cape was his first novel, quickly followed by Villains Inc. and Bite Me: Big Easy Nights, and Young Sentinels. Small Town Heroes is his fifth book, fourth in the Wearing the Cape series, and he guarantees that there will be more stories to come set in the Post-Event world. He also promises that he will get to his comic space opera science fiction story, Worst Contact. Really.