Hope Bolinger & Alyssa Roat 
Dear Henchman 

6:47 PM

Himari: Kevin, you’re friends with that pizza guy Billy, right?

Kevin: If by friends you mean he cheats off my Calc homework, and I steal his Red Bull from his dorm when he isn’t looking, then yeah. Why?

6:48 PM

Himari: Well, V just kind of … impaled him?

Himari: She feels awful.

Henchmen and sidekicks aren’t supposed to save the world. They’re supposed to brew coffee, take pics of their hero or villain for social media, and stay in the background.

Sidekick Kevin and henchwoman Himari are kinda good at their jobs … maybe … when they’re not on chat platform Meta-Match, complaining about their respective hero/villain.

But when their hero and villain are taken down for the count, Kevin and Himari have to work together-and maybe try not to flirt-in order to save the world.

Told entirely through texts, transcriptions, and direct messages, this darkly humorous chat fiction novel goes behind the scenes of the superworld.