Within Range: Borrowed Days (Ebook Edition)

When the Hartmann Supermax collapses without warning, every security system failing in the same instant, over three hundred powered criminals scatter into the surrounding city. The government seals the area. Heroes are deployed inside. Clara, an independent hero known as Sweep, is among them.

Clara isn’t the strongest hero on the roster. Her telekinesis is modest and her combat skills are solid but not exceptional. What sets her apart is her awareness, a spatial sense that lets her track movement, map collapsed buildings, and locate survivors faster than anyone else in the field. In a crisis built on chaos, that ability makes her invaluable.

The quarantine zone settles into a grim rhythm. Patrol, rescue, engage, report. Sleep when rotation allows. Repeat. Clara handles her sector, files her reports, and pushes through the exhaustion the way every other hero does. Then the reports start filtering in. Mist, one of the most notorious criminals in European history, has been sighted in the zone. A former hero who helped destroy an entire town and kill over three hundred people. Convicted, imprisoned, now loose in a city full of targets.

Clara expects a monster. What she finds is something far more complicated.

When she and Mist end up fighting on the same side against a threat neither can handle alone, Clara is forced to reconcile the person in front of her with the story everyone else has already accepted. The woman the system condemned doesn’t match the files. Doesn’t match the headlines. Doesn’t match anything Clara thought she knew.

What follows is a decision that will put Clara’s career, her reputation, and her life on the line. Not for glory or recognition, but because she looked at the evidence and came to a different conclusion than everyone around her. In a world of powered heroes and government oversight, the most dangerous thing Clara does isn’t fighting criminals. It’s thinking for herself.

Within Range: Borrowed Days is a superhero novel about the cost of conviction. About what happens when doing the right thing means standing alone. And about discovering that the people the world throws away might be exactly the ones worth fighting for.