When a small-town group of children survive a lightning storm that should have killed them, they become bound by something far larger than they can understand. Years later, as young adults, they begin uncovering impossible connections — not just to each other, but to history itself. To unravel the mystery, they’ll have to confront what’s buried in their own DNA.

Aiden Whitcolm, a guilt-ridden addict with a gambler’s intuition, has already lost almost everything. But the same invisible threads that ruined his life are about to pull him back into something that could change it — and the world — forever. The government knows he and his friends are the key, but even they don’t grasp the full scope of what’s coming.

Science calls it The Merge. The ancients called it The Gathering. And the only way to survive it is to face the truth of who they are — and what they were never meant to remember.