Charlene Haines

Unexpected Heroes: the Battle for the Black Onyx Charlene Haines

In the first installment to this series, five ordinary teenagers embark on an incredible journey through space and time after mysteriously acquiring super-human abilities. Along the way, they befriend mystical queens, identical clones, and a falsely convicted invisible spy. Together, they must find the courage to battle an evil, yet familiar villain in hopes of retrieving the most powerful stone in existence: the Black Onyx. Threeteenage friends gain super-human abilities by way of a mysteriousneighborhood girl. Forever changing their lives, she asks them to usetheir new powers to help innocent creatures achieve victory in auniverse far, far away. Leaving their carefree lives behind, theyjourney to new and wondrous places and fight for their lives protectingcomplete strangers. They are forced to become adults quickly when theywitness a horrible scene of defeat and death. Surprisingly joined bysomeone familiar, the teenagers embark on an incredible journey to savea life, evoke revenge, and retrieve the Black Onyx- a stone worthkilling and dying for. Betrayed by an old friend, the teenagers arefaced with an uncertain outcome, and must find the courage to standunited against someone they would have given their own lives for.