


This acquaintanceship leads her to an underground gladiatorial tournament and a chance at undoing the past and returning to her former life. On the run, she ends up in San Francisco overnight and falls in with a group of teens, many also Oddities with powers that manifested the same time as her own. Former cheerleader Vesper, 17, remembers her previous life: before she learned that she was an Oddity, before the fire that she inadvertently set took her home and nearly destroyed her family in Los Altos, and before she learned exactly what her powers as a Harbinger-discerning and conjuring a person’s worst fear-could do.
