Spensa and her ship, M-Bot, make an amazing team. Luring Krell fighters into ambushes, zipping through the layers of centuries-old machinery orbiting her planet (which is actually a penal colony/human nature preserve), and protecting her family and friends. 

​Due to Martial rule, Laia doesn't have much in life, but she does have family. That is until the actions of her brother take it all away. Now, she's all alone.
Elias has known nothing but training and duty, that is unless you count the years before he was taken to Blackcliff and trained for nothing but dispensing death.

The 'Epics' came to being. Though endowed with superpowers, they were anything but heroes.

David Charleston lost his father at the hands of the mightiest of them all, Steelheart, as a boy. Watching and studying the Epics for the last ten years, he's figured out each has a weakness. He just needs the help of the Reckoners to enact his revenge.

Meet Liane; just your ordinary young adult raised by a clandestine government agency to kill without question. Along with her handler, Damian, she executes her orders with lethal efficiency to keep the peace in post-WW3 London.

In all their years together, Damian has never lied to Liane. But she's never been told the whole truth either.