A HEROIC HEART--A MONSTER'S MIND.WHAT IS MIZDI BECOMING?**MIZDI ARAIS has lost half his mind.He is fifteen years old, missing six years of memories. Without family or friends to tell the rest of his story, he lurks through Toronto, hiding in the hollow shell of a miserable half life. Hard work in school and a black market job should have been enough to protect him from a big city's attacks on a black orphan teen. Yet still, a deep, gnawing anger within him reminds him that his past--whatever it is--will catch up with him. And take over.MYANZI is Mizdi's missing half. Awoken in Mizdi's mind, the vicious, clawed, and charismatic Myanzi takes over the boy's body at whim and fights back against the horrors of his vagabond life. At first, Mizdi sees Myanzi as the power he needs to stop hiding and save other abandoned youth in his city from the pain he had to live through. But when Myanzi's justice--feeding off of the rage--only finds its end in blood, Mizdi's heroic heart is tested. Lured by the truth that Myanzi is the key to unlocking Mizdi's missing past, their warpath through Toronto's underworld leaves one question: HOW FAR WILL THE BOY FOLLOW THE BEAST?MIND VILLAIN: PART ONE, the debut novel of author K.S. McKinan, fearlessly explores the battle for souls waged in the story of the unlikely teenage superhero