In the Districts, if you’re Tainted, you’re property.

Superhuman abilities are a curse. Something to be hidden, cleansed, and controlled. The “pure” humans make sure of that. The Districts keep the Tainted working, obedient, and silent.

Zakuya Manya has never been very good at that.

Born with a Taint that refuses to be contained and a chip on his shoulder the size of Heaven itself, Manya has one plan: climb. Through the gangs, through the corruption, through whatever gets in his way. The world was built to keep people like him at the bottom.

He will burn it down from the top.