Sixteen-year-old Kayden McCay’s life is shattered when his best friend, Tommy Bent, son of powerful business mogul Frank Bent, is killed in a sudden mugging. Struggling with grief and guilt, Kayden’s world takes an extraordinary turn after he is struck by lightning as he desperately tries to get his fallen friend to the hospital, but after he wakes up from a year long coma, he mysteriously gains superhuman abilities.

As Kayden grapples with his newfound powers, he discovers an unlikely mentor in his homeroom teacher, Mr. Jonas, who guides him in mastering his abilities and understanding the responsibility that comes with them. Together, they uncover a rising threat of dangerous villains emerging in the city.

Driven by loss and armed with powers he never asked for, Kayden steps into a secret life as a hero, determined to stop the darkness that took his friend, and to protect a world that has no idea how much it needs him.