Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place.

Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Familial estrangement
  • Mutilation of a dead body
  • Death of parents recounted
  • Murder, on-page
  • Fire
  • Bombing & missile attack