There are two kinds of people: those that wish to live on in a boring world due to an extreme case of sunk cost fallacy, and those that are more than happy to leave it for a better option. When Theo Lane, high school dropout working in a fast food chain to make ends meet, is offered such a chance, he packs up and asks when he's getting there.

In a world where those with extraordinary powers are only starting to surface, it is his duty to become one of the first: to become a symbol, to become a Harbinger. And he has enough at his disposal to do just that.