The Ables: The Ables, Book 1

In a world of secret superheroes who protect mankind unknowingly, Phillip and his friends --the Ables-- must overcome more than villains if they are to defeat the growing evil threatening humanity.

I did have fantastic hearing, mostly by virtue of being blind. But that couldn't actually mean that he's trying to tell me I have super powers, right? Because that would be ridiculous.

It wasn't the "sex talk" he expected. Phillip Sallinger's dad has told him he's a custodian--a guardian--and his genetically inherited power is telekinesis. He'll learn to move objects with his mind. Excited to begin superhero high school until he discovers he's assigned to a "special ed" class for disabled empowered kids, he suddenly feels like an outsider. Bullied, threatened, and betrayed, Phillip struggles, even as he and his friends--calling themselves the Ables--find ways to maximize their powers to overcome their disabilities, and are the first to identify the growing evil threatening humanity. As vital custodians disappear and the custodian leadership is mired in indecision, a mysterious and powerful figure taunts Phillip, and the enemy is poised to strike. But what if the next "one who does all," the multi-gifted custodian predicted to come, is one of the Ables?

PRAISE FOR THE ABLES & JEREMY SCOTT

"smart, thought-provoking, and unique... readers won't want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down." 

-School Library Journal

"Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins YouTube channel to the book's epic battles, plot-twists and super-villains."

-San Francisco Book Review

After the events of The Ables, Phillip, James & the rest of the gang are still finding a balance between being acceted by the rest of the hero community and just... being teenagers. In The Heroes Journey, we glimpse a single day in their lives, as they fight a dangerous enemy in a heavily populated area and make split-second choices that will impact their lives forever. Hero actions can be big or small, seen or unseen. Sometimes everything works out great; sometimes there are consequences. But it's always the right choice to try to be a hero. Isn't it...

PRAISE FOR THE HERO'S JOURNEY & JEREMY SCOTT

“smart, thought-provoking, and unique… readers won’t want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down.” 

-School Library Journal 

“Scott shows today’s youth how strong and powerful they can be.”

-Medium

"Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins YouTube channel to the book’s epic battles, plot-twists and super-villains.”

-San Francisco Book Review

"The heroes of this wildly inventive and unpredictable superhero epic don't want to be ignored, or pitied, or placed on a pedestal. They want what all of us want: The chance to forge their own destiny. The fictional world The Ables inhabit struggles to admit it needs its team of Special Ed heroes. But it does, and I would say our pop culture landscape (and, you know, your bookshelf) needs them even more." 

-David Wong Executive Editor of Cracked.com and NY Times Bestselling Author

Three years after the showdown with Finch razed their hometown of Freepoint and changed their lives forever, Phillip & the rest of The Ables gang find another school year interrupted by a growing threat. Relations with the government have never been more strained and the political rhetoric has shifted to a more hostile tone when discussing those with special abilities. A new branch of Homeland Security has been empowered to investigate custodial acts of heroism and even detain suspects indefinitely. While juggling his leadership responsibilities over the dozens of Ables members, a new crush, and a growing anxiety problem... Phillip will have to decide how much of The Ables' time will be spent training for simulation games and how much will be spent stepping into the real-world crime-fighting holes created by the custodians that have disappeared--presumed to be imprisoned or worse. Confronted with a mysterious new villain wielding a previously unknown power, Phillip, Bentley, & Henry will be forced to stretch their abilities and their bonds further than ever before.

PRAISE FOR STRINGS & JEREMY SCOTT

"Smart, thought-provoking, and unique... readers won't want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down." 

-School Library Journal

"Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins YouTube channel to the book's epic battles, plot-twists and super-villains."

-San Francisco Book Review

Set four years after the events of Strings, Currents finds the Ables gang about to start their second year at Goodspeed University. Phillip is struggling more than ever with anxiety and PTSD, and he continues to feel tremendous guilt over the loss of a friend. It’s haunting him. He’s having vivid nightmares, passing out frequently, and starting to question his role in the world.

On top of all that, he’s taking his first public speaking course, and the learning curve is steep―though he does make a new friend in the class.

Phillip also finds himself truly blind once again, with no one to give him even temporary sight. He and his girlfriend, Emmaline, have created a sort of shorthand that allows her to communicate enemy positions so that Phillip can still be an effective crime fighter. Sherpa, his dog, is proving just as helpful during hero work as she is in the day-to-day things Phillip needs help with.

There’s more distance between Phillip & Bentley now, and the reasons aren’t entirely understood by either of them. As Phillip tries to keep it together and rebuild an old friendship, the group of college heroes chases a new energy-hoarding villain across the globe, desperate to understand the danger in time to stop it.

By the end, few of them will ever be the same.

PRAISE FOR CURRENTS & JEREMY SCOTT

"Smart, thought-provoking, and unique... readers won't want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down." 

-School Library Journal

"Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins YouTube channel to the book's epic battles, plot-twists and super-villains."

-San Francisco Book Review

Fifteen years after the events of Currents, a new generation of Ables—including Phillip and Emmaline’s kids, Emily and Henry—are learning to navigate their powers and beginning to understand what it takes to be a hero.

A new killer is threatening the custodian world: a strange blood disease that only targets those with custodian DNA. The disease is wiping out the older population of heroes, and doctors are far from understanding it, let alone curing it. Overcome with fear that the disease will cause custodians to become extinct, the humans begin ramping up military spending, straining relations between humans and custodians. Phillip comes under fire as one of the most visible and important custodial board members, and hope looks slim when Phillip’s father is diagnosed with the disease.

Phillip, Emmaline, and the other Ables are caught between the crumbling society of custodians while protecting and raising their fledgling-hero kids. But Emily, Henry, and their friends have plans of their own to help their parents, and begin following clues left in a notebook written by Bentley Crittendon with the belief it will lead them to his secret lab where the cure is. The problem? A group of masked custodians are after it too, and they’re willing to do anything to get to it first. In the epic conclusion to The Ables series, three generations of Ables must unite in the race to uncover the secret lab—and the madman who created the disease, who is bent on destroying them all.

PRAISE FOR ORBITS & JEREMY SCOTT

"Smart, thought-provoking, and unique... readers won't want to put this eye-opening, explosive story down." 

-School Library Journal

"Jeremy Scott brings his familiar snark from his CinemaSins YouTube channel to the book's epic battles, plot-twists and super-villains."

-San Francisco Book Review