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    Peter Parker survived the Battle of New York. That's not the beginning of his story — it's the wound underneath it. Two weeks after the sky over Manhattan closed back up, an ordinary field trip changes everything, and Peter finds himself with power he never asked for and a debt he can't stop thinking about paying. No radioactive-spider-as-Chapter-One shortcut here — this is what happens when a scared, ordinary teenager watches heroes do what he couldn't, and decides, quietly and completely on his own, that he's done being the one who just watches. Grounded in Queens, in Midtown High hallways, and in the people who'd do anything to keep him safe without knowing what "safe" even means anymore.

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