Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When shes not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, shes volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, she’s spent her senior year trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to her Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, theres also that small matter of recently discovering she can fly.

When the fictional world of The Grove crashes into Faiths reality as the show relocates to her town, she cant believe it when TV heroine Dakota Ash takes a romantic interest in her. But her fandom-fueled daydreams arent enough to distract Faith from the fact that first animals, then people, have begun to vanish from the town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school. But when her investigation puts the people she loves in danger, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound giftsrisking everything to save her friends and beloved town.

From the bestselling author of Dumplin comes an origin story like youve never read beforeof a fierce, plus-sized superhero.

From Julie Murphy, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofDumplin, comes the first in a two-book origin story of fan-favorite comic character Faitha ground-breaking, plus-sized superhero. Now in paperback!

Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When shes not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, shes volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen dramaThe Grove.

So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, theres also that small matter of recently discovering she can fly.

When the fictional world ofThe Grovecrashes into Faiths reality as the show relocates to her town, she cant believe it when TV heroine Dakota Ash takes a romantic interest in her.

But her fandom-fueled daydreams arent enough to distract Faith from the fact that first animals, then people, have begun to vanish from the town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer drug infiltrating her high school.

But when her investigation puts the people she loves in danger, she will have to confront her hidden past and use her newfound giftsrisking everything to save her friends and beloved town.