Conventional Love — Lex Chase

Sequel to Cashing the Reality Check

Checkmate: Book Three



Three years ago, superhero Memphis Rook saved Hogarth Dawson's life, and now the two can't imagine being apart. Sort of.



By day, they're a loving couple. By night, they're the superhero duo Checkmate. Since that's too much time in each other's personal space, Rook and Garth decide they need friends outside of each other. Garth finds friendship with a D&D group comprised of the social misfits Chad -- who has crammed himself so far in the closet he might never find the door again, Jackson -- who's so mysophobic he's afraid of his own germs, and El Jefe -- who has all the social grace of a brick.



With an epic dose of peer pressure, the group urges Garth to go to Tolkicon, the biggest comic convention in Axis City. When the supervillain league the Coalition of Calamity appears and takes the convention hostage, as the only real superheroes around, it's up to Garth and Rook to save the day. With Rook as one of the hostages, Garth knows it's time to nut up or shut up about being a hero.