ISBN13: 9798171171834
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was already doing the impossible. Then another world gave her stats for it.
During a citywide blackout, exhausted single mother Sarah Chen opens her apartment door expecting a dark hallway. Instead, she finds a rain-soaked forest.
Seconds later, Sarah and her two children-twelve-year-old Chloe and seven-year-old Theo-are stranded in Avelune, a fractured fantasy realm where ancient wards are failing, abandoned shelters are waking, and creatures called the Unhoused hunt beyond the last safe thresholds. Then something impossible appears before Sarah.
During a citywide blackout, exhausted single mother Sarah Chen opens her apartment door expecting a dark hallway. Instead, she finds a rain-soaked forest.
Seconds later, Sarah and her two children-twelve-year-old Chloe and seven-year-old Theo-are stranded in Avelune, a fractured fantasy realm where ancient wards are failing, abandoned shelters are waking, and creatures called the Unhoused hunt beyond the last safe thresholds. Then something impossible appears before Sarah.
GUARDIAN CLASS AWAKENED. Everyone else seems to have swords, magic, or generations of experience surviving this world.
Sarah has an emergency bag, two frightened children, years of logistics experience, and a lifetime habit of noticing what everyone else forgot. Apparently, that counts. Her new Guardian abilities reward protection, preparation, evacuation, shelter building, and keeping people alive. Every crisis survived can make her stronger. Every restored refuge can become safer. Every person willing to stand beside her can change what she is capable of. But Avelune's magic has one rule Sarah never learned on Earth:
Protecting someone is not the same as controlling them. The harder Sarah tries to make every decision herself, the more her Guardian power begins to resist her.
And she doesn't have time to learn slowly. An abandoned sanctuary called Wayhouse Nine may be their best chance of survival. A magistrate promises safety in exchange for obedience. The ancient protection network across Bellweather Vale is collapsing. And something called the Hollow Tide is coming. To keep her children alive, Sarah will have to become more powerful than she ever imagined. To become the Guardian Avelune actually needs, she may have to do something much harder:
Trust other people to protect themselves-and her. Mom Mode: Overpowered is a warm, adventurous progression fantasy featuring a capable mother protagonist, found family, portal fantasy, visible LitRPG progression, defensive magic, refuge building, practical problem-solving, and a magical system where cooperation can become more powerful than control.
Sarah has an emergency bag, two frightened children, years of logistics experience, and a lifetime habit of noticing what everyone else forgot. Apparently, that counts. Her new Guardian abilities reward protection, preparation, evacuation, shelter building, and keeping people alive. Every crisis survived can make her stronger. Every restored refuge can become safer. Every person willing to stand beside her can change what she is capable of. But Avelune's magic has one rule Sarah never learned on Earth:
Protecting someone is not the same as controlling them. The harder Sarah tries to make every decision herself, the more her Guardian power begins to resist her.
And she doesn't have time to learn slowly. An abandoned sanctuary called Wayhouse Nine may be their best chance of survival. A magistrate promises safety in exchange for obedience. The ancient protection network across Bellweather Vale is collapsing. And something called the Hollow Tide is coming. To keep her children alive, Sarah will have to become more powerful than she ever imagined. To become the Guardian Avelune actually needs, she may have to do something much harder:
Trust other people to protect themselves-and her. Mom Mode: Overpowered is a warm, adventurous progression fantasy featuring a capable mother protagonist, found family, portal fantasy, visible LitRPG progression, defensive magic, refuge building, practical problem-solving, and a magical system where cooperation can become more powerful than control.
- Is there romance?
- Book One focuses on Sarah, her children, friendship, found family, survival, and community rather than a central romance.
- Is this a stats-heavy LitRPG?
- Progression, levels, abilities, resources, and upgrades matter, but the story and characters remain at the center.
- Does Book One have a real ending?
- Yes. The central conflict of Book One reaches a satisfying resolution while opening a larger mystery for the series.
- Open the door. Guardian Class is waiting.
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