What do you do when a conspiracy suppresses super powers? Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her and the other rogue Empowered and Imbued across the world, seeking to capture or kill them. Only the strange Dark-Net, an extra-dimensional road, keeps Mat and her friends free. Mat is also desperate to find her mother, who until a few months ago Mat thought was dead. Her mother's fate is somehow intertwined with the people hunting her, and Mat wants to learn how. When the Dark-Net begins to fail, Mat realizes she'll have to do the last thing she ever wanted to do: lead a desperate rebellion to save her mother and free the world. The Empowered series reading order Book 0 Renegade Book 1 Empowered: Agent Book 2 Empowered:...

Superpowers are real, but they come with a price. Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered: men and women who possess extraordinary abilities that set them apart from the rest of humanity. The rare few who do become Empowered face a stark choice. They must either join the Hero Council, following any and all orders in the service of protecting humanity, or forswear ever using their power. Mathilda rejected that choice and went rogue, joining a hidden community of other rogue Empowered. Captured by the authorities, she was sent to prison. Five years later, she's been paroled from Special Corrections and just wants to live a normal life. Only the world won't let her. To save her family, she joins a secretive government agency, with orders to infiltrate the world's most notorious rogue Empowered group. Mat's assignment becomes not only a private war to stop deadly Empowered threats to the world, but a quest to uncover the secrets behind...

Strengthen relationships, build more resilient communities, and develop a stronger emotional toolbox Explaining power and privilege and the links between individual safety and community safety, Cristien Storm shows readers how to set emotional boundaries that build vibrant social movements and a better world for all. As there have been increases in violence against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQI-identified people, there has been a corresponding demand for individual and community self-defense, boundary setting, and bystander trainings. Boundary setting can be used not just as a means for personal safety but as form of solidarity, resistance, and inspiration.From saying no to a boss who always asks you to work late, to setting a boundary with a loved one, to navigating an uncomfortable situation at the bus stop, Cristien Storm offers a new approach to verbal boundary setting that is accessible for all bodies and identities. Practical in scope, the...

Whenever I touch somebody, I absorb their powers.This ability makes me a shoe-in at the Empowered Academy, a top-secret government institution for people with superpowers, but it makes my dating life a major pain in the butt.And while dating is hard for any 18-year-old (especially in the 80s), that’s not the only thing bothering me. There’s also:The Soviet spies camped out in an abandoned insane asylum in New YorkThe fact that my two superpowered boyfriends (long story) just can’t seem to get alongThe huge conspiracy theory that’s making me question everything I know about our government.I’ve tried to do things by the book my whole life, but now I’m finding that I might have to start breaking the rules to save the people I love.Empowered Academy: 1985 is the sequel to Empowered Academy: 1984, but it is also a standalone reverse harem novel. It features an empowered heroine who experiences massive change throughout the story, a trio of unique love interests, steamy romance action intended for adult readers, and a happy ending! If you like Stranger Things, X-Men, and books by authors like I.T. Lucas and K.F. Breene, you have to read Empowered Academy: 1985.

What happens when millions of people suddenly possess superpowers? Mathilda Brandt thought she'd protected her family and freed the world, instead she's unleashed forces that threaten to destroy both. She rescued her Empowered mother from RAMPART, but now her mother wants Mat to choose sides– Empowered over normal humans. Her sister Ava is missing. Governments begin rounding up the newly Empowered, while other Empowered want to end the threat from normals once and for all. With her own power suddenly erratic, and her connection to Gaia in jeopardy, how can Mat save those she loves and prevent the world from destroying itself?

I’ve got three supernatural boyfriends, and they’re all pretty kickass. One can warp through shadows. Worships Def Leppard. Thinks he’s god’s gift to women (making love in the shadow realm is pretty rad, I have to admit). Another can tear your head off with one arm—the only one he has, too. Super strength, look it up. And the third can get inside anybody's head just by making skin contact. Yeah, he's pretty good with his hands. And did I mention I can manipulate the molecular structure of any object I see? You’d think we make a pretty wicked team together, but even our powers combined might not be enough to pass the Test, which decides if we ever graduate from this stupid Academy. That means a lot to me, cause that’s the only way I’m getting my motorcycle back. Oh, and also the fact we might die if we don’t. Empowered Academy: 1984 is a standalone paranormal romance novel and also part one of the Empowered Academy series. If you like steamy, action-packed reverse harem novels meant for adult readers, you have to read Empowered Academy: 1984. **

The Supreme rules the world. For centuries the Supreme has reigned with an iron fist. The people are slaves to her whim and at the mercy of her followers who revere her as their goddess. Using a supernatural ability, known as the 'Power' she is able to channel emotions and convert them into superhuman abilities. Some Resist. Not all live their lives in servitude. A few rare people also possess the Power and try to fight. These Empowered Ones are hunted mercilessly by the Supreme and her servants, for she knows the threat they pose to her will. None has dared to challenge her outright. That is until now. Elian, a young boy living at the edge of the Imperium discovers he too possesses the Power with devastating consequences for both himself and the girl he loves. On the run, they encounter a ragtag band of resistance fighters called the Liberators. Among their ranks are others with the gift and their leader Vavius who believes that the key to overthrowing the Supreme lies in the ruins of the ravaged lands of the once mighty Kingdom of Aeranyth. Pursued and hunted for their gifts by the sinister First Fear and the Hollowed, the world's fate rests in the hands of the Empowered Ones. **

Just when a mysterious death in Washington, DC, appears to have voodoo connections rooted in New Orleans, Trevor Black also receives an invitation to speak at the national ABA convention in the city.He knows he'll be in enemy territory, both as a disbarred attorney and as a follower of Jesus, but he determines to travel there and confront the supernatural element. Right after a grisly murder in his hotel room puts him on the suspect list, his daughter disappears, leaving a note that suggests a connection to the local cult religion. Now Trevor must not only crack the case but try to protect Heather from forces of darkness clutching at her soul as well. And just as he discovers that his ability to sniff out the supernatural has its limitations, Trevor learns that this web of evil extends far beyond isolated murders, enslaving scores of innocent children, with its head perhaps linked to the highest seats of power.