A Hero in Her Own Right

A mission gone forces Natasha to relive some of her most traumatic memories. The memories haunt Natasha, even after she is safely home. Despite her torment, Natasha puts herself back into the line of fire-but now, she is hallucinating, and her ability to be one of SHIELD's best agents is slipping. No longer able to do the one thing she staked her identity upon, she spirals into depression, and her entire life unravels, leaving her deeply in need of intervention from her friends.

Months later, SHIELD helps Natasha arrange a new life-working at a library in a suburb of DC. But because she finds some peace in her non-super life doesn't erase her connections to villains. It starts with a train robbery and Natasha's new superhero-crazed boss, and it sets the recovering Natasha on a journey to confront herself and her own version of the oft-asked question--what it means to be a hero.