Fantasy takes a back seat in this contemporary-slow burn-style novella told by Samael Judd about how his worst enemy became his most trusted friend. Eastview High sure isn’t the school of his dreams, that would in fact be Aries High—unfavorable teachers, bullies, and his biggest one of them all, Casey Burke, followed him from middle school to his freshman high school year. But is the school as bad as Sam says? Or is he just having a rebellious outburst and projecting his misery onto everyone around him?

Comet Cove is a city where everyone gets their own special powers when they come of age. Everyone, that is, except for Samael Judd. Ordinary in a world of extraordinaries, Sam faces the possibility of exile, should his powerlessness be discovered. When a Fragment doesn’t accept themselves, their Aura doesn’t give them the powers they’re promised, making them a Blank. But a solution exists: If Sam can confront the part of himself that he would rather stay buried, he just might be in the clear. That is until he finds out he’s revealed his secret to the wrong person. (JUDD is not a comic—oh, how I wish—but it is within the superhero genre to a degree, so comic comes up in the categories. Perhaps one day.)

Sam has his powers & the chance to learn their true nature. The only problem is, he’s afraid to go to school, to face people after what happened. When his best friend goes missing he has no choice but to act!