Yes, you read that right. 2026 is coming in strong for the B.E.N.T. (Biological Enhanced Nascent Talent) universe! Imagined by Christopher Woods and published as a shared-author universe, if superheroes and supervillains are your thing, you will not want to miss this world!

We have three coming out over the next three months, so here they are in order!

Hunters Hunted by Gustavo Bondoni – 01/30/26

Vernon’s powers are only skin deep.

Fortunately, when you have skin like Vernon’s, whose BENT-powered epidermis can feed him, allow him to breathe underwater and shrug off bullets—among other innumerable wonders—you don’t really need to go much deeper.

But Vernon is a man on a mission, and that mission is revenge. He wants to hit the Triads, the masters of Chinese organized crime, hard enough to end their reign of terror, and his skin, no matter how powerful it makes him, simply isn’t built for speed. He can’t work fast enough; as soon as he destroys a Triad installation, they build it back up.

So he needs help. Maia’s BENT is teleportation, and that completely changes the entire ballgame. If only he can convince her to come out of retirement.

When he finds her, however, they’re both roped into an operation that promises to give them what they want most… But at a price.

Someone is going to get BENT. The only question remaining is who… And how badly.

Null Point Exception by Joshua Pickard – 02/27/26

It’s all or nothing.

Billy Pointer is but one of the trainees sent to Camp Peary, a CIA facility known as “The Farm,” to participate in a new initiative aimed at responding to potential BENT threats internationally. As he learns the art of espionage, he struggles to reconcile his morals and ethics against the nature of the career he has chosen.

Things only get more complicated when he is injured on his first assignment, revealing that he has a Bend of his own. Now, the major powers in the BENT world are interested in using his newfound ability to aid them in realizing their own purposes and goals.

Everyone wants him on their side. Everyone has a point to make. Nobody is willing to work with anyone who is not on their side. Billy’s loyalties to his country, friends, employer, and what he thinks is right are tested. It doesn’t help at all that, in his naivety, he wants to believe everyone at face value — that everyone wants to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, reality has a way of making itself known.

As Billy learns some hard lessons, he realizes that he has some equally hard choices to make.

On the Wings of a Weeping Angel by William Joseph Roberts — 03/27/26

TBlaze doesn’t just kill.
It turns its victims into Weeping Angels.
When it takes Robbie’s daughter, his life ends—and his war begins.

Backed by outlaw bikers, street-level vigilantes, and a barely controlled Bend, Robbie storms Chicago’s criminal underworld. From the Sisters of Midnight to the Violet Syndicate’s brutal super-powered cage fights, he hunts the monsters who built an empire on suffering.

Outgunned. Outmatched. Fueled by rage.
Every fight pushes him closer to his limits… and closer to vengeance.

Step into a gritty, high-octane superhero revenge thriller where pain is power, mercy is weakness, and justice is written in blood.