Over one year ago, thousands of missing people returned. Slowly, they begin to manifest strange powers - to heal and to destroy, to alter the present and to perceive the future. As it becomes clear that their gifts could reshape the world, the struggle for control begins. Who will decide the fate of humanity?

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.