It’s not easy being a teenager. . . Especially when you have a mask, a secret identity, and a lot of homework. The only thing Rachel Hingis hated more than swimming was having to play well with others. Edgar Fern, nerd extraordinaire, couldn’t find anyone to play with. Life would have been just fine if they never crossed paths. Instead, they collided. The victims of an accidental experiment deep in the corn fields of Iowa, they and four others—Alex, Celeste, Laura, and Susan—were changed, and not necessarily for the better. As a mysterious and sinister group started to pick off the students, the six of them had a choice to make: become victims, or become heroes. The bumpy road to being a masked avenger is fraught with conflict, mystery, explosions—and Freezees.

Being a teenager is hard enough without putting on a mask and making mortal enemies. But when you have both, and a part time job, things are little more complicated. Edgar, Rachel, Alex, Celeste, Laura and Susan joined forces to save the their classmates at Red Bug Regional High School from a sinister group that was picking the students off one at a time. The team worked a little better than they had expected and now, they’re stuck… as the Apathetic Avengers. With the FBI as their secret backers, they begin to discover that Red Bug, Downing City and Freemont County, Iowa, is not nearly as innocent and naïve as they thought. And they weren't the only ones who shouldn't have been in the playground…

At some point, black and white starts to run to gray… Rachel Rae Hingis wants to save the whole world, starting with a tiny corner of Iowa where corruption and Accidentals run rampant. Edgar Fern wants to save the world, too, if he could just get Rachel to listen to him once in a while. Instead, he spends most of his masked avenger time saving her butt or getting her out of trouble. Rachel’s stubborn refusal to stick to the rules is becoming a liability, though, as she starts to become more vigilante than avenger. Edgar unwavering adherence to the law puts him in direct odds with Rachel’s noble if misguided mission. And when a little girl named Ginger becomes a victim of ISTH’s greed and corruption they find themselves fighting each other instead of the bad guys.