When The City Is Safe Again

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Genres

Superheroes, Family Relationships, Mental Health, Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Suicide

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Jun 16, 2026

Page Length

303 pages

Available Formats

ePub

When The City Is Safe Again

Advance Reader Copy

Blurb

The heroes are fine. It’s their partners who are breaking.

When the city is safe again, everything will go back to normal. That’s what Davey Karoll believes.

As a therapist married to the city’s first superhero, he has learned to live with late nights, close calls, and the distance that grows when the person you love belongs to everyone else. One day, he tells himself, they’ll find their way back. That, or he will finally adjust to the new normal. But what would that even look like?

While the heroes continue to fight crime in the city, the spouses left at home must confront what having super-powered wives has done to their marriages and to themselves. Sometimes the hardest part of saving the world isn’t the battle.

It’s coming home.

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