Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brother and sister.

Bob Lee Swagger, who served as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, has forsaken violence, retiring to the Arizona desert with his wife and child. However, when questions are raised about the murder of Swagger's dad in a shoot-out forty years ago, he is drawn once again into a life-threatening nightmare.

Morte is a lonely beauty with an axe to grind and a grudge against the world. Her brother died in the war between men and beasts, and now she's out to make everyone pay for her loss. That's where Kyrie comes in. The wandering cook may hold the key to unlocking the Destruct Code: a mysterious orb capable of eradicating everything in existence. The fate of the planet hangs in the balance, but the heroes would rather destroy the world than save it.

In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.

As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.

Vetch, a young serf on the land once owned by his family before it was claimed by the Tian empire, finds his situation much improved when he is taken from the fields by the Jouster Ari who needs a boy to care for his dragon, Kashet, but Vetch cannot forget his anger over what the Tians have done to his life and loved ones, and slowly plans to even the score.

Barney and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded the team with Barney. Stonebanks became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill, or so he thought. Stonebanks now is making it his mission to end the team, but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of team members, recruiting individuals who are younger,...

Armed with his shape-shifting sword, a mechanized suit of armor sent from the heavens, and a fierce hunger for condiments, Van (a tight-lipped loner in a jet-black tuxedo) hunts the villain who murdered his one true love.

Julia and Alison are back on the advanced team after it is proven they did not cheat, and their chances to make the Youth Equestrian National Team restored, but their vindication only makes them eager for revenge.