William "Lockpick" Sorling, former apprentice member of the heroic Crimson Five, returns home to the affectionate women of his mentor team after serving time as a convicted supervillain. Five years have passed, enough time for everything to have changed.

He’s changed, even. Gone is the scrawny teenager fiddling with locks in the background. Standing in his place is a young man hardened to an edge by chaos and incarceration. Will's power, his real power, made him into one of the most dangerous me...