Childhood friends who've been superheroes since their senior year of high school and are now in their early 20s travel to New York to stop a meeting between their enemies that, should they fail to stop, will decide the fate of the world.
Although the meeting isn't set to take place until two weeks after the heroes land in New York, problems arise for the young heroes as soon as they land, in the form of a murderer who claims one of their own as their first victim.
As old classmates of the heroes begin to turn up dead and a shocking betrayal occurs, the young adults are forced to choose between saving the world and saving themselves.
Will they be able to find out who the killer is and take them down before it's too late and stop the meeting?
Or will the killer take them off the playing field before they can save the world?
Samaritan Ari Jackson is the author of the young adult novel, Marked For Slaughter, a book inspired by her own friend group and encouraged by her love of superhero comics.
"I wrote Marked For Slaughter because I thought I could do it, so I did. I didn't need the extra credit because I already had a 98 in the man's class. I did it because I wanted the confirmation that, if I worked hard enough for my goals, I could achieve anything." Samaritan Ari Jackson when asked why she wrote her debut novel, Marked For Slaughter, while in middle school.