When Natalie Hoffman is stolen from her family, and everything she's ever known, she realizes she is not just an average girl. She soon comes to find that she is a Special, a group of people scattered across the globe who have different abilities. Natalie and the rest of her kind face a cruel, hostile reality under the rule of the National Phaser Committee, an organization committed to finding any Special and terminating their abilities. Natalie knows that she won't be able to overpower them. But when she meets Amara Smith, this all changes. She now has an ally. Together, they rise and uncover truths about the National Phaser Committee, truths about how they were made. When all is revealed, will they be able to fight the threats that are to come, or will it cost them their lives?