Prelude to a Hero -- Chronicles of a Hero, Book 1

They reached across the stars for a hero. They got Wendell. Heaven help them both.

The universe has never once cut Wendell P. Dipmier a break.

Seventeen, unremarkable, and bruised on a fairly reliable schedule, he's mastered the one skill nobody hands out trophies for: getting back up. The only place he's ever been a hero is inside his own head... and even there, it's a stretch.

Then something reaches across the dark between worlds, pulls him clean off the Earth, and calls him by a name that can't possibly belong to him.

A chance to be a real hero.

A power beyond imagining, his for the taking.

A darkness that has just felt him arrive.

There's only one problem.

They've got the wrong kid.

...haven't they?

Because you are always more than you think you are.