After returning to New York from their adventures in the South Pole, Molly, Cassandra, and Emmett are threatened by powerful enemies and go into hiding, but when they discover a plot against presidential candidate Thomas Edison, they decide to make a perilous journey to Washington D.C. to save him.

On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

"Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake--superheroes don't have to just be generic...