The Savior’s Girlfriend
She loved the world's greatest hero. Then she discovered his powers were hers all along.
Heather Brantford grew up poor and Black in the inner city, fighting for every opportunity in a world stacked against her. When she collided with a tall, kind white boy named Joe Handelwood in high school gym class, she had no idea he would become Blazar—the most beloved superhero on the planet. For a decade, she stood by his side through poverty and fame, racism and ridicule, loving a man who made the world a safer place.
Then Joe died saving humanity from an alien monster, and everything fell apart.
His parents kicked her out of Joe’s and her home at his funeral. Late-night talk show hosts called her a gold-digger. Racist mobs gathered outside her new apartment. But when Heather suddenly developed superpowers identical to Joe's, the truth emerged: he had been stealing her abilities for years, building his fortune and career on powers that belonged to her.
Now Heather faces a choice. Should she pursue justice against a dead hero's estate in a trial that will put her entire race and gender on trial before the watching world? Or stay silent and let the world's most worshipped family keep what they took from her?
She chooses to fight. But the lawsuit is only the beginning. Because Joe isn't really dead. The alien monster that killed him has a story of its own. And an alien conspiracy stretches back millions of years, with Earth's fate hanging in the balance.
Can a Black woman from nowhere become the hero the world actually needs?
The Savior's Girlfriend is a sprawling superhero epic that combines high-octane action with sharp social commentary on race, class, and power. Set in an alternate 1990s where alien technology has accelerated human progress decades ahead of schedule, it asks: What happens when the people saving the world are the ones who need saving from it?