Amanda Pennington has just lost her brilliant geneticist/physician father. As she and her longtime friend, Benjamin "Beans" Carter, begin to wade through the lab journals and notebooks left behind by Leonard Pennington, they discover shocking information that changes their lives forever, for both of them are products of Pennington's tinkering in his lab, his attempts to create the ultimate archetypes. Both of them have certain powers and abilities that set them apart from normal human beings. With their lives endangered by unknown enemies, Ami and Beans forge a strong bond as they seek to untangle the webs of lies, deceit, deceptions and manipulations that have shadowed their lives.