You know it's desperate when you're seriously considering life as a supervillain. Evren Macintosh is tired, stressed, and willing to do almost anything for a bit of a leg-up on her doctoral thesis. So when her supervisors offer her a way to gain some extra credit, she grabs it with little thought for the consequences. Sadly, being a supervillain isn't at all close to community service. However, now that she's involved, Evren doesn't have much choice other than to keep working with her supervisors - a supervillain trio known as The Consulate. She must find a way to finish her doctorate without further compromising her integrity or getting herself arrested - something made especially difficult when The Consulate have been getting more and more violent. And then there's Mikhail, and Lin, and the hero Smoke, all drawing her attention in ways she hadn't accounted for. As if she didn't have enough on her plate… Evren has very few options open to her - should she just let go of her morals and fully embrace villainy? With love, learning, and life on the line, Evren has some difficult choices to make.