A boy who thinks he's the villain.
A girl who might be worse.
They were built for destruction, not attachment.
Preston Peters and Thomas O'Connor are of the few to adopt OutKasts, a generation of children wielding unimaginable power, yet they couldn't be more different. Preston trains his children as weapons for battle, their existence viewed as abominable mistakes. Thomas raises his as family, teaching them to strengthen their powers for themselves.
When one of Thomas' daughters returns from a mission collapsing, screaming of an unknown assailant keen on ripping their families apart, the fate of the world is forced upon two of the most unlikely of friends: cold, calculating Nicholas Peters, and warm, trusting Ophelia O'Connor.
As the OutKast teens dig through their fathers' pasts and search within themselves for the identity behind this mysterious villainess, their hope for autonomy battles against the shame and cruelty of their pasts.
Can two OutKast households bare the truth of their existences? Or will they succumb to their differences, surrendering to the narrative demanded of them since birth?