Molly Sprayregen
This cover image released by Mira shows We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen. (Mira via AP) February 01, 2021 - 6:21 AM
âWe Could Be Heroes,â by Mike Chen (Mira)
In Mike Chenâs âWe Could Be Heroes,â Jamie and Zoe each wake up alone in an unfamiliar apartment. Neither has any memory of who they are or how they got there. All they know is that they now possess special powers. Jamie can read and erase memories, and Zoe has superhuman strength and speed.
Completely on their own, each must do whatever they can to survive. Taking opposite paths, Jamie turns to a life of crime, and Zoe becomes a vigilante hero. One day, the two meet in a memory loss support group. Their stories are too similar to be coincidental, so together, they embark on a quest to find out what happened to them and rediscover the people they once were.
Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit. Rosie owner of Monk’s Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner, caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar. However, exactly two types of people drank at Monk’s back bar: members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who sought to employ them. Angel ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing is asked to perform a job for Rosie. What this job reveals will affect Persephone and put Angel and her squad up against an army. Despite the odds, they are rearing for a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation. For Angel, she knows that once honor is lost, there is no regaining it. That doe