For Nick, conning a mark is easy. After doing it for so long, he has accepted his exceptional abilities as a thief. One day, his world changes. After being caught by his latest mark-one of the most dangerous mob bosses-Nick is injected with a serum. The contents of the liquid share strikingly similar properties to the Disease. This Disease nearly wiped out the entire population of Drayton, the city where Nick was born. Fortunately for Nick, this strain didn’t kill him…it transformed him.

Realizing that his senses are now heightened beyond normal human capacity, Nick travels to Raven City. Raven City is the creepy, sterile-white city that remained untouched by the Disease that took Drayton. Mentored by Audrey, a beautiful but fierce girl with the same abilities as Nick, Nick agrees to become an agent of CORE-the Center for the Operatives of Reflex Enhancement. In an effort to understand more about himself and Raven City, Nick will travel around the world serving the largest force the world has ever seen.

The more time Nick spends with CORE, the more suspicious their intentions seem. The only thing Nick can know for sure is that his first target, Arnold Sek-a suspected murderer-can help him decide whether he can fully trust CORE. With a dead or alive notice on Sek's head, Nick's first assignment may be his last as a CORE agent.

**Note: This is an old description I wrote when I first created this story. I had hoped to use this as a basis for a novel synopsis if I ever published it.