Sixteen-year-old Lior Takayama thought he was just a kid with two best friends, school, and a quiet life. Then a fight in an alley went viral — and something inside him woke.
Time slowed. Light spilled from his eyes. For the first time, the power meant for him answered.

That moment shattered everything.

The people who raised him weren’t just guardians; they’d been hiding him from Potestas — the secret order that manipulates presidents, kings, and wars from the shadows. A prophecy says a golden-eyed child with fire in his eyes, will expose their darkness. Lior is that child.

Missiles fell. His home burned. The family who protected him died buying him seconds to escape. Now Lior is on the run with his two closest friends, hunted by an organization that has ruled history itself.

Can three teenagers survive the deadliest power on earth?
Can Lior master a gift that bends time before Potestas kills him?
Or will the light meant to break the darkness die before it ever rises?