The New 52 Jessica Cruz and her friends were on a hunting trip when they accidentally stumble across two men burying a body. The men brutally murder her friends, and Jessica manages to escape, but is left severely traumatized. The Ring of Volthoom, which feeds off fear and had abandoned
Power Ring after his death during
the Crime Syndicate's incursion to Prime Earth, is able to locate her due to her trauma. Unlike the previous ring bearers, she does not willingly accept the ring, but is forced to accept it. The Ring tortures Jessica with physical and psychological pain. The Ring explains that it is using Jessica to attract the being that destroyed
Earth-Three to Prime Earth because he is dying (for reasons not explained) and wants to take the planet with him.
Batman, sent to stop Jessica from unleashing violence and terror, de-powers the ring after convincing Jessica to face her fears and thereby eliminate the emotional weaknesses that allow Volthoom to dominate her. During the AMAZO Virus arc, Jessica succumbs to the effects of the virus, but is cured after Superman creates an antidote.
Hal Jordan agrees to teach Jessica how to wield her ring in the service of good. When
Darkseid's daughter Grail arrives on Prime Earth, she attacks Jessica and uses her ring to open a portal to Earth-Three, allowing the
Anti-Monitor to cross over. Jessica and the rest of the Justice League are then transported away by
Metron. After this, the Justice League decides to free the Crime Syndicate to help in the fight against the Anti-Monitor and Grail. Jessica,
Cyborg and
Mister Miracle head to the prison and the close proximity to the Syndicate allows the Ring to possess Jessica. During the Justice League's confrontation against Grail and Darkseid, Grail manages to separate the
Flash from the
Black Racer, which immediately begins to pursue the Flash. Realizing the Racer will not leave the physical plane of existence until it reaps a soul, Jessica convinces Cyborg to tap into the ring's technology and override Volthoom's control over Jessica's body for a few seconds. This lets Jessica jump between Flash and the Black Racer, allowing the Black Racer to apparently kill her. Jessica survives, and it is revealed that the Black Racer killed Volthoom instead, causing Jessica's ring to crumble into dust. Immediately afterwards, a Green Lantern ring descends at the battlefield and transforms Jessica into a new Green Lantern.
DC Rebirth In
Green Lanterns: Rebirth #1, Jessica meets
Simon Baz as he is investigating an intrusion by a
Manhunter. The events are revealed to be a training exercise run by Hal Jordan to test the two as a team. He proceeds to combine Jessica and Simon's power batteries to make them work together as partners and puts them in charge of protecting Earth, also giving them membership to the
Justice League. When confronting the threat of the Phantom Ring, a prototype power ring that can channel the entirety of the emotional spectrum at the cost of rapidly shifting depending on the emotional state of the user, Jessica confesses to her own doubts about whether she deserves her ring given the unconventional circumstances of her recruitment. However, her fears are assuaged when she temporarily dons the Phantom Ring and it automatically transforms her into a Green Lantern, allowing Jessica to recognize her success at overcoming her old fears rather than believing that she was defined by that experience. Jessica is sent to space to train with the Green Lantern Corps and is under the orders of
Guy Gardner, who pushes her around and berates her. However, he agrees to keep the events secret after she defeats him in combat. Jessica is assigned to monitor the Ghost Sector, a region consisting of recovered planets stolen by
Coluans. While there, she encounters Cyborg,
Starfire, and
Azrael piloting a skullship commandeered from
Brainiac in an attempt to enter the sector. Attempting to stop them, she finds herself trapped in the Ghost Sector alongside the others, and they work together to investigate the mysterious region of space as
Justice League Odyssey. ==Powers and abilities==