When Adam catches a glimpse of Carly’s mutated crimson Limbal Ring, he becomes suspicious. She not only confesses her own origin, but drops a bombshell that he too is a Descendant of 1 of the 7 ancient Russian families who possess mutated genes — giving them a host of biokenretic powers.

Adam is thrilled to explore his new talents and meet the other Descendants, but his joyful new existence is threatened by the Iksha—a group of ruthless Russian scientists who have been capturing the Descendants, studying them, and eventually killing them.

After joining the other Descendants at Afrax (an underground safe house in International Falls, Minnesota), Adam discovers more about himself than he could ever have imagined. Adam and Carly acknowledge their irrevocable synch. Together, they peel back the layers of Adam’s perplexing Russian ancestry to uncover the source of his mental state — unmasking a multitude of mind-bending secrets along the way. Adam is faced with choosing between his old psychologically torturous life and a new dangerous, but exciting one.