“Humor and slow-burn romance balance out intrigue, high-stakes heroics, and emotional character moments to launch this series-opener up, up, and away.”
Lorehaven review, 2022

Reformed

· April 2020 · for , ,

Once a villain, always a villain?

Optimistic and idealistic superhero Prism is determined to redeem her father’s legacy by rebooting his supervillain rehabilitation program. To do so, she sets her sights on Fade, the relapsed supervillain who was the reason the government canceled the original program in the first place. However, when she petitions for Fade to be released into her custody, she finds out things might not be as simple as she thought.

Convicted of an unforgivable crime, Fade received a choice: surrender to trial and possible execution or endure a memory erasure so he could start fresh. Now with no recollection of his time before incarceration, Fade doubts he has the ability to be anything but the villain the public believes him to be.

A series of attacks by a mysterious power-swapping villain points back to Fade’s past and the crime that cost him his freedom and memory. With her father’s legacy and her own reputation on the line, even Prism has to wonder: can a villain truly be reformed?

Book 1 of the Supervillain Reformation Project series.

Review of Reformed

· March 2022

Can a convicted supervillain change his life? Are people worth second (and even third) chances? H. L. Burke’s superhero fantasy, Reformed, attacks these questions head-on. Second-generation superhero Prism longs to revive her late father’s Supervillain Rehabilitation Project. Her first subject? Fade, the supervillain whose failed attempt to reform sank the original SVR. As Prism fights to bring Fade back to hero work, she and her team must confront their own mistrust of the former villain while a new threat from Fade’s past may endanger more than the SVR. Humor and slow-burn romance balance out intrigue, high-stakes heroics, and emotional character moments to launch this series-opener up, up, and away.

Best for: Adults and older teens who enjoy superhero stories, slow-burn romance, and intrigue.

Discern: Casual alcohol use, discussion of physical attraction between characters and frank discussion of previous sexual relationships, superhero violence and death, mild swearing.

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