In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. he cannot tell anyone who or what he is. If he stops moving, those that hunt him will find and kill him. But you can't run forever. So when he stops in Paradise Ohio, john decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People he cares about- and who care...