THE GIRL BEHIND THE MASK

By day, scholarship student Riley Morgan is the nobody Sloane Vale—the privileged student-council president—barely sees. By night, Riley is Violet, a masked vigilante who answers the calls of girls no one believes. When Riley saves Sloane from a deadly fall, Sloane kisses the hero she has secretly worshipped, unaware that the woman beneath the mask is the same girl she dismissed hours earlier. Their dangerous attraction cracks open a larger conspiracy: Riley’s late mother was the original Violet, while Sloane’s mother, Aegis CEO Helena Vale, has been engineering attacks, harvesting powers, and turning female heroes into corporate property. Framed and stripped of her abilities, Riley must unite the women Aegis tried to exploit and silence, expose the truth behind the missing eleven minutes during a graduation-day catastrophe, and reclaim her identity, her love, and the right to define a hero—proving Violet belongs to no company, and to no single face.