Collateral Damage
Featured in Writer's Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Hypable, and MuggleNet.

"A spunky and jubilant love letter to superhero fans."
-Kirkus Reviews


Power. Courage. Invincibility. The marks of a true hero.

Meg Sawyer has none of these things.

Meg has never stopped a moving bus with her bare hands, been bitten by a radioactive insect, or done anything moderately resembling saving the world. She doesn't have to. She's a background citizen, a nobody, one of the swarms of faceless civilians of Lunar City--where genetically enhanced superhumans straight out of the comics have thwarted evil for years.

For as long as the Supers have existed, Meg has had one goal: to not become a casualty in their near-daily battles for justice. And for the last seventeen years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but she's not dead yet.

But when Meg accidentally finds one of the city's perfect, invincible protectors murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances, her whole "innocent bystander" strategy falls apart. After being coerced by his determined girlfriend into a mission to help prevent the deaths of the remaining Supers, Meg finds herself forced into the foreground of a story she never wanted to be part of-one that challenges everything she thought she knew about both her city and herself.

"Simonds writes smart and sassy characters but takes the time to give them emotional depth..."
-MuggleNet
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Collateral Damage
Featured in Writer's Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Hypable, and MuggleNet.

"A spunky and jubilant love letter to superhero fans."
-Kirkus Reviews


Power. Courage. Invincibility. The marks of a true hero.

Meg Sawyer has none of these things.

Meg has never stopped a moving bus with her bare hands, been bitten by a radioactive insect, or done anything moderately resembling saving the world. She doesn't have to. She's a background citizen, a nobody, one of the swarms of faceless civilians of Lunar City--where genetically enhanced superhumans straight out of the comics have thwarted evil for years.

For as long as the Supers have existed, Meg has had one goal: to not become a casualty in their near-daily battles for justice. And for the last seventeen years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but she's not dead yet.

But when Meg accidentally finds one of the city's perfect, invincible protectors murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances, her whole "innocent bystander" strategy falls apart. After being coerced by his determined girlfriend into a mission to help prevent the deaths of the remaining Supers, Meg finds herself forced into the foreground of a story she never wanted to be part of-one that challenges everything she thought she knew about both her city and herself.

"Simonds writes smart and sassy characters but takes the time to give them emotional depth..."
-MuggleNet
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Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

by Taylor Simonds
Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

by Taylor Simonds

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Featured in Writer's Digest, Kirkus Reviews, Hypable, and MuggleNet.

"A spunky and jubilant love letter to superhero fans."
-Kirkus Reviews


Power. Courage. Invincibility. The marks of a true hero.

Meg Sawyer has none of these things.

Meg has never stopped a moving bus with her bare hands, been bitten by a radioactive insect, or done anything moderately resembling saving the world. She doesn't have to. She's a background citizen, a nobody, one of the swarms of faceless civilians of Lunar City--where genetically enhanced superhumans straight out of the comics have thwarted evil for years.

For as long as the Supers have existed, Meg has had one goal: to not become a casualty in their near-daily battles for justice. And for the last seventeen years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but she's not dead yet.

But when Meg accidentally finds one of the city's perfect, invincible protectors murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances, her whole "innocent bystander" strategy falls apart. After being coerced by his determined girlfriend into a mission to help prevent the deaths of the remaining Supers, Meg finds herself forced into the foreground of a story she never wanted to be part of-one that challenges everything she thought she knew about both her city and herself.

"Simonds writes smart and sassy characters but takes the time to give them emotional depth..."
-MuggleNet

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781953539236
Publisher: The Parliament House
Publication date: 06/25/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 318
File size: 876 KB
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Taylor Simonds is an Orlando-based professional manuscript editor with Write My Wrongs Editing. Taylor holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from the University of Central Florida, and previous staff writing credits include CollegeFashion.net and MuggleNet.com. When she's not hunting down grammatical errors or reading comic books and calling it "research," Taylor can be found almost exclusively at Disney World. Yeah, she's THAT kind of Floridian. A thorough geek, Taylor enjoys cosplaying, watching anime, buying fan art she'll forget to hang up, and camping out for the next Marvel movie. Collateral Damage is her debut novel; the product of a dawning realization after years upon years of superhero fandom that although superheroes are cool, living next door to them would be decidedly not so. Taylor does not have any kids or pets to mention, but she does have some pretty great friends whose house she likes to burst into announced, a lá Kramer. She resides in the peasant-village behind Magic Kingdom with her "To Be Read" pile and a large collection of unused sewing patterns.
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