Renegades is a science fiction novel by American author Marissa Meyer and the first book in the Renegades trilogy. 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. It became a no. 2 New York Times bestseller two weeks after its release. Synopsis Premise Renegades follows Nova (anarchist alias: Nightmare), the niece of the Anarchist leader, Alec Artino (alias: Ace Anarchy). Alec takes Nova in after her parents are viciously murdered by another villain gang before the civil war, and was raised by the Anarchists. She can put people to sleep with skin-to-skin contact, and since her parents' murder, she has not slept at all. 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. It also follows Adrian, the son of the leaders of the Renegades, Hugh Everhart and Simon Westwood. He was adopted by the two leaders after his mother, another member of the core-Renegades, was killed. He brings Nova onto his team at Renegades headquarters under the alias 'Insomnia.' Setting 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. 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. He ruled this chaotic world for a time until the Renegades rose up and managed to defeat him. Both are groups of people with superpowers, known as prodigies, in which some were born with powers with numerous capabilities while others got their powers through freak accidents. The Renegades consider themselves superheroes—fighting for the greater good. The Anarchists are the most powerful of many villain gangs, and consider themselves the super-villains. The Renegades have beat the Anarchists, causing them to go into hiding. The remaining Anarchists after the civil war live in the old tunnel of the city's subway system, in order to live their lives in the rule of the Renegades. Plot 10 years before the events of the book, 6-year-old Nova Artino watches as her parents and baby sister are killed by a villain gang's hitman, and