The Underdogs Rise: Volume 2

In a world of superpowered heroes, magical assassins, and galactic gamblers, the greatest champions are the ones left behind. The Underdogs Rise: Volume 2 delivers a thrilling collection of speculative fiction where misfits and outcasts are forced to forge their own destinies. In these pages, a wingless boy in a society of flyers builds a dangerous rocket to compete in a sacred race, a pit fighter who dies weekly in a gladiatorial arena fights to remember the woman he loves, and a desperate orphan must choose between life and death in a lich-lord’s cellar to save her dying brother. From a down-on-her-luck space trucker hauling illegal bio-material to save her daughter to a young queen navigating a web of love and betrayal that could shatter two kingdoms, these stories champion the forgotten and the forsaken. This is a celebration of those who defy their fate and prove that even from the deepest shadows, heroes will rise.