Finnegan Yates lives an unassuming life, struggling to be the man he needs to be. Despite this, he knows how to transform a victimized woman into a superheroine through his comic book series, The Heroic Adventures of Madame X.

Only The Heroic Adventures of Madame X is no ordinary comic book series: the characters are living, breathing entities. With one gunshot, Madame X's alter ego Roxanne is implicated, and the real and imagined spiral out of control.

In a world where nothing is what it seems, can Finnegan discover his true calling and write the world before it is too late?