The war began when Ace Anarchy, tired of living in a world where prodigies were oppressed by society, used his immense power to tear down all societies across the world in a very short span of time. Renegades takes place in Gatlon (a fictional city), in the aftermath of a civil war between the Renegades and the Anarchists known as the Battle of Gatlon. He brings Nova onto his team at Renegades headquarters under the alias 'Insomnia.' He was adopted by the two leaders after his mother, another member of the core-Renegades, was killed.

It also follows Adrian, the son of the leaders of the Renegades, Hugh Everhart and Simon Westwood. She wants revenge on the Renegades for not protecting her parents as promised, and leads an infiltration into their headquarters by posing as a Renegade-in-training. She can put people to sleep with skin-to-skin contact, and since her parents' murder, she has not slept at all. Alec takes Nova in after her parents are viciously murdered by another villain gang before the civil war, and was raised by the Anarchists. Renegades follows Nova (anarchist alias: Nightmare), the niece of the Anarchist leader, Alec Artino (alias: Ace Anarchy). 2 New York Times bestseller two weeks after its release. It was first published in the United States on November 7, 2017, and was succeeded by Arch Enemies, by Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. (Nov.Renegades is a science fiction novel by American author Marissa Meyer and the first book in the Renegades trilogy. Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. A twist ending casts doubt on a key aspect of the story’s history and leaves the door open for future exploration. Beyond the capes and masks is a strikingly grounded story of star-crossed would-be lovers, deception, and the recognition that most of humanity exists between the extremes of good and evil. Third-person narration builds suspense as it shifts between Nova and Adrian, a Renegade with his own secrets the worldbuilding details and many combat sequences will captivate devotees of superhero comics. In a vividly dark and fully imagined universe where special abilities are feared unless they can be strictly controlled and labeled, Meyer (the Lunar Chronicles) celebrates and subverts popular superhero tropes while mining the gray area between malevolence and virtue. Ten years later, the time has come for 16-year-old Nova to infiltrate the Renegades and exact her revenge: her power to induce sleep has been honed by the Anarchists, the so-called villains of her world.

The night that Nova’s parents and infant sister were murdered, the Renegades-superheroes who protect her city-never came to save the day.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer