Everything was fine for Hazel Ivy Jene, until she was forced to transfer school due to her obsessive ex-boyfriend Callum Weston. Alec Knight, leader of his cliche bad boy group who made every girl in Evermore High swoon over them, also thought that his junior year would be just like the previous years have been. Little did he know that his life would drastically change after running into a troubled Hazel.

I could see it in his eyes the first time I met him that he had a bigger purpose behind everything he did.

Welcome to The Academy. If you're here, know that you have been subjected to A-level observation for an extensive period and after severe screening and trial have been handpicked by the wisest and most proficient of individuals round the globe to be admitted to this exclusive society that recruits, trains and produces the finest minds the world has to offer since 1934, all so you can be more. More resourceful, more productive and conducive to the society. And in farther future replace us and carry forward our bequest. Know that you're here because of something that great and worthy people saw in you, deemed you to become as great and worthy as themselves. Because you keep what it takes to be clever. Are you clever? Clever enough?