There have always been human beings whom nature secretly favored.

Energy from the Earth channels through their bodies, granting physical, mental, and emotional advantages, gifts which mankind was unaware of — until now.

ZURI PARKER and ANDERS OZWELL are among one hundred and fifty teenagers who have been told by THE WELLSPRING SCHOOL that they possess this special connectivity.

Wellspring, whose true intentions are a mystery, pushes these students beyond their limits with the ultimate goal of evolving them into PARAGONS, powerful humans who can bend the forces of nature to their will.

In the past, a paragon forming in nature had been a one in ten billion phenomenon caused by the Earth to alter the course of mankind.

Most — if not all — of Wellspring’s students will fail in their pursuit of becoming a paragon, but any that the school successfully creates will be capable of changing the world.

Regardless of whether nature desires those changes or not...