MADISON OAKES IS A LOT OF THINGS.
She’s 23. She’s a big eater. She’s a skilled telekinetic. She’s a government-backed superhero, “Heartforce,” trained since adolescence to join the ranks of the PHL; second-generation, even, upholding her late father’s Heroic legacy.
They’re also a butch, nonbinary trans lesbian, and their Toronto-area Hero team’s first official ‘LGBTQ2+ Champion.’ Or at least they were, briefly, as a cynical public relations move, before getting reassigned in Director Hagen’s schemes to obsessively infiltrate the supervillainous Korps… who really don’t seem anything like what the sheep-bear has always been told, actually.
Now she must choose: Does she want to be a part of Hagen’s machinations? Does she want to be a Hero at all? Motorcycling across Canada to find answers, is Maddy on a collision course — with her coworkers, her self-doubt, family secrets, and Dad’s so-called ‘legacy’ — that can only end in a…