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It was the worst summer of Carrie Hauser's life, and the weirdest: it was the summer her parents announced they were getting divorced, and when a dying alien passed on to her his fantastic superhuman abilities.All Carrie wants now is to settle into her new home in Kingsport and get her life back to something resembling normal - but that won't be easy when her secret is discovered by a group of teenage super-hero wannabes, who need her help to discover why experimental military drones have been wreaking havoc in town.Their search leads the fledgling super-team to Archimedes, an artificial intelligence that will do anything to escape its virtual reality prison and enter the real world.However, the kids aren't the only ones with an interest in Archimedes, and the super-teens soon find themselves caught in the middle of a longstanding feud between Concorde, Kingsport's high-flying hometown hero, and his nemesis, the deadly mercenary Manticore.Save the day? Sure...as soon as school lets out.

The world is full of magic...and it wants the Hero Squad dead.Winter in Kingsport heats up when the necromancer Black Betty comes to town, on the hunt for the Libris Infernalis, a legendary book of dark magic with the power to raise hell on Earth...literally.Facing power beyond their understanding, the Hero Squad turns to the Protectorate's resident sorceress for help, but the mysterious Dr. Enigma seems to have an agenda of her own. Is she on the side of angels, or is she a devil in disguise?

The past is coming back to haunt the Hero Squad. Archimedes, the Squad's first foe, is finally heading to trial, and the teen heroes aren't exactly looking forward to again facing the man capable of revealing their deepest secrets to the world - but their secrets are nothing compared to the dark truths being hidden from them by people they know and trust. When those secrets are finally laid bare, they could tear the team apart, one heartbreaking piece at a time...and if they don't, the bloodthirsty killer known as Buzzkill Joy will.

His name is uttered in terrified whispers. He's the bad guy the good guys fear. He is the King of Pain, and he's come to Kingsport to put another hero in the ground.The Hero Squad faces their deadliest foe yet, a mysterious killer who hunts within the superhuman community, leaving dead bodies and broken minds in his wake. The Squad is next on his hit list, and the King of Pain will push the young heroes to their absolute limit - and one of them might not survive the experience.Get ready for the darkest chapter in the Action Figures saga as the Hero Squad prepares for the greatest fight of their lives - a fight in which there are no winners...only survivors.

In the land of Asaches, there are great men and women who have changed the course of history. Their adventures are honored in song; their names are spoken with a reverence normally reserved for the gods; their heroic deeds have elevated them to the status of living legends.And then there are these guys...Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are two hard-luck adventurers for hire looking for their big break - or an excuse to retire before they get killed. Salvation appears in the form of Erika Racewind, a mysterious elven woman with a dark secret and a lucrative job offer. Desperate and destitute, Derek and Felix agree to join Erika in escorting her young charge across Asaches.Of course, nothing is ever so simple for Strongarm and Lightfoot.The boy turns out to be no one less than the fabled Reaper, he who is destined to destroy the mad lich-lord Habbatarr and save the world from total destruction. The adventurers soon find themselves fighting off fanatical cultists, hordes of mindless undead, bestial Hruks with a taste for human flesh, and unspeakable subterranean horrors - and things only stand to get worse as they travel ever deeper into Habbatarr's blighted domain.The fate of the entire world hangs in the balance, and all that stands in the way of a global apocalypse is a mild-mannered warrior, an occasionally good-hearted thief, an ill-tempered elf, and a Chosen One with a serious attitude problem.Asaches is screwed.The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot, the new series from author Michael Bailey (Action Figures), is an irreverent take on the fantasy genre. Get ready for an epic tale filled with action, magic, monsters, quests, treasure, inconveniently located ancient artifacts of great power, curiously specific prophecies, and dangerously rickety rope bridges that someone really should have repaired a long time ago.

The Hero Squad is finished. Their friendships damaged in the wake of the King of Pain incident, perhaps beyond repair, the team go their separate ways to lick their wounds and figure out where their respective paths will take them...and if those paths will ever lead back to each other. "Team-Ups" features a series of individual adventures that partner the Hero Squad with unexpected friends and pit them against some surprising foes. Sara finally learns the price of her betrayal; Matt and Nina Nitro go hunting for superhuman fugitives; Carrie gets a rematch with Manticore that takes a shocking turn; Stuart follows Dr. Enigma into Boston's magical underworld in search of a powerful and dangerous artifact; Missy gets a lesson in taking names and kicking ass from the Entity; and it all leads to Carrie finally learning the truth behind her fantastic powers...but is she willing to pay their terrible cost?

Innsmouth Look Publishing invites you to explore the worlds of author Michael Bailey in this collection of short stories and a previously unreleased novelette-length story. This volume contains two previously published stories from Bailey's two series, Action Figures and The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot, and an all-new, never before published novelette exclusive to this volume, Lost Souls.

One of our super-heroes is missing.It took a devastating attack on Kingsport to reunite the Hero Squad, but their reunion proves short-lived after Lightstorm vanishes following the battle, leaving the team without its most powerful member at the worst possible time.Damage Inc. is back and more dangerous than ever, thanks to the mysterious mastermind known only as the Foreman arming them with enough firepower to take on the Hero Squad - but for what sinister purpose? The Squad is determined to find out, but the answers could cost them dearly.Psyche takes center stage for this game-changing chapter in the Action Figures saga, which includes the bonus short story, Action Figures - Live Free or Die.This is when everything changes

Rose Booker remembers how she died.Both times.Nearly a year after being shot and left for dead, Sergeant Rose Booker returns to active duty with the Worcester Police Department, hoping to put the past behind her - except she's not sure it's her past that's haunting her.When hard-drinking hellraiser Julie d'Aubigny enters Rose's life, she promises to reveal the truth behind Rose's nightmares - or are they memories? - of her death at the end of a hangman's noose.But first Rose must stop the mysterious madman waging a bloody campaign of vengeance that threatens to turn the city's streets red. All she has to do is uncover his identity - and his own dark secret.

One war is over but a new war is beginning, and Lightstorm is once again caught in the crossfire.After eight months in space fighting alongside the Vanguard against the Black End, Carrie "Lightstorm" Hauser comes home to rejoin her friends and family - but do they even need her anymore?Carrie returns to Earth and finds herself a stranger in her own life. Matt has taken over as leader of the Hero Squad, her secret identity has been revealed to the world, and her father wants nothing to do with his super-hero daughter. Worst of all, Concorde refuses to let Carrie back in the field until she deals with the trauma she suffered in the Black End War.As Carrie struggles to figure out her place in the world, a new threat rises in the form of Massacre and Vendetta, two rival super-villain teams on a collision course - and Kingsport is their battleground.Heroes will rise. Heroes will fall. And no one will walk away unscathed.

Adventurers Wanted Good pay for simple recovery job, payment to be rendered upon successful completion of contract. Interested parties please report to the Woeste City Council. Be ready to provide credentials upon request. No Hruks need apply.Desperate for a little excitement and a big payday, Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot and their companions respond to a call to adventure from the city-state of Woeste, recently victimized by a band of raiders who stole an ancient iron mask of historical significance but no intrinsic value - or so the city council claims.The council's story doesn't quite add up but it's willing to pay good money for the mask's return - and all the companions have to do is hike through a cursed forest, search a lost necropolis crawling with unspeakable horrors, and recover the mask from a gang of armed bandits.Easy.The greater challenge may lie in first convincing the council not to award the lucrative contract to a rival party, the legendary adventurers known as the Noble Blades - which is easier said than done when a sin from Felix's past rears its head in an unexpected way.But if Derek, Felix, and their friends wanted easy lives, they'd go herd sheep or something.The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot - Blades of Glory is the third book in the irreverent fantasy series by author Michael Bailey (Action Figures), a tale of bold heroes, dastardly villains, terrifying beasts, magical artifacts, dark pasts, mysterious circumstances, deceptive motives, atmospheric locales, and gratuitous violence.Blades of Glory includes a bonus short story: Companionship, Compassion, Restraint, and Other Things Erika Racewind Dislikes - A Strongarm & Lightfoot Side Quest.

On Earth, Carrie Hauser is a hero. But on the far side of the galaxy, she's just another soldier on the front lines of an interplanetary war. Carrie has barely recovered from thwarting an alien invasion of her home town when she's whisked away to the heart of the Kyros Alliance and pressed into service with the Vanguard, a cosmic peacekeeping force dedicated to defeating the terrorist network known as the Black End. Surrounded by hostile extraterrestrials, including among her teammates in the Vanguard, Carrie finds herself in for the fight of her life against an unstoppable force hellbent on spreading chaos and destruction - and if the Kyros Alliance falls, Earth could be next. Get ready for the wildest ride yet in the Action Figures saga