Lila has two secrets she's prepares to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she;s been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, Since forever.
After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust - her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother years before. And that they've found them. In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone - there are others with special powers out there- and her mother's killer is one of them...