Every power has a price.
Reid is learning that the hard way. His steel skin keeps cracking—and the doctors say his body isn't healing. Every time he uses his fear-triggered ability, he's shaving years off his life. But Reid doesn't care. He used to be a bouncer, a nobody with anger issues and a dead sister.
Now he's someone who can protect others—at least for a while.
But he's not prepared when he meets June, a mute girl who doesn't speak, doesn't cry… but leaves trails of ash wherever she walks. Her power is still unknown. But the city calls her The Endling—the child born the moment the sky cracked open.
And people are hunting her.