The Prismatic Protectors: Aurora Rise

Sabine Vale never meant to become a supervillain. She was just trying to pay the rent.After losing her job, Sabine and her sixteen-year-old son, Miles, are running out of options. Then they discover an ancient magical mask hidden among her mother's belongings.The mask transforms Sabine into Empress Midnight-a dramatic, powerful villainess with a cape, an army of displaced magical minions, and absolutely no respect for subtlety.Miles has an idea.If they're going to have a supervillain in the family anyway... why not livestream it?Soon, Empress Midnight is one of Aurora City's strangest celebrities. Her elaborate "evil schemes" come with permits. Her minions have merchandise. Her hostages are volunteers. Her explosions are inspected by the fire marshal.The rule is simple: Memes, not schemes.For almost five years, it works.Until the mask stops playing.When ancient Midnight magic awakens, Aurora City is sealed off from the outside world. Monsters that haven't been seen in decades return to the streets, buried memories begin to unravel, and four ordinary adults are forced to become the magical heroes they thought they had left behind forever.The Prismatic Protectors are back.Unfortunately, they think Empress Midnight is responsible.And Miles is beginning to realize that the story everyone remembers about his grandmother, the original Empress Midnight, may never have been the truth.Now Sabine must fight the power inside her own mask, the Protectors must confront wounds they buried nearly twenty years ago, and Miles must uncover a family history involving magical girls, alien royalty, forgotten friendships, terrible parenting decisions, government bureaucracy, and one extremely opinionated space dog.Because sometimes the person wearing the villain's mask isn't the villain.And sometimes saving the world means finally understanding what happened the first time.Prismatic Protectors: Aurora Rise is a funny, heartfelt urban-fantasy adventure about magical girls who grew up, villains who deserve second chances, family secrets, trauma, recovery, and discovering that heroism rarely looks the way it does in the cartoons.A Prismatic Universe Adventure by Pat Mize.