Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

In a futuristic society ruled by an elite breed of humanity known as the Wardens, assisted by their empathic Counselors, Kit Charlet is a Warden at the beginning of her days as a ruler, struggling to come to terms with her new rank, her heightened abilities, and her need for a Counselor. And just when she has become satisfied, she becomes caught up in a web of tragedy, lies and corruption.

When a mysterious riot occurs at the superhuman prison located underneath Riker's Island. The Heroes Legion discover that the original bad guy team "The Made-Men" have escaped, with Spellbinder, Blind Lure and Shock Jock joining their ranks. The villainous teens are back, and this time they are playing for keeps. But the Heroes Legion have more on their plate to handle when General Arcane is left in a coma, and his temporary replacement isn't a fan of the Heroes Legion and wants them benched and not allowed to help with the crisis.