Possessing the uncanny ability to fry a television set from twenty paces can really wreck a girl€s social life.
If you€re looking for proof, just ask sixteen-year-old Alexandra Parker. After catching her boyfriend in the arms of the prettiest girl in school, she made the journey from social elite to social pariah in a haze of electricity and exploding electronics. But finding herself at the bottom of Bay View High€s social hierarchy was nothing compared to the shock of discovering who€"and what€"she really is.
After being zapped out of a burning bookstore by the mysterious Declan€"a hero nearly as handsome as he is infuriating€"Alex finds herself under the protection of the powerful Grayson family. It€s through them that she learns the truth: that the world she€s always known is nothing like it appears to be... and that she has far more in common with them than she might want to believe.
Now, on the run from a fire-wielding hit man and a secretive government organization, Alex must navigate a strange and treacherous new world filled with superhuman mutants known as Variants. As she begins to unravel the many secrets of her family€s past, she uncovers the real reason for her parents€ death twelve years earlier€"and finds out that the threat to her family, and to everyone she cares about, is still dangerously real.