The government gave Edward his life back. They just forgot to include the three hours where he saw something he wasn't supposed to.

A student. No powers. No training. Just a kid from outside the dome whose family broke themselves to buy him a future inside one, and a scavenging side job that put him in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time.

Now there's a bounty on his head that would make a soldier retire. A man, the government numbered Project 29, who calls himself Drago, is the only reason he's still breathing. And the classified truth they both carry is simple: the world isn't being saved. It never was.

Thousands of test subjects died learning that. Thirty-seven didn't.

Edward, he has no powers. Just a brain, a debt he owes his family, and the kind of ordinary face that nobody expects to be still standing when the smoke clears.