Zoey St. John has always been a troubled kid. As an orphan, she's lived alone on the streets, surviving by her wits, always keeping one step ahead of the police… and the monsters. But when a mysterious group of people known as Agents show up, everything changes…Wrenched from everything she knows, she is whisked away to the Hive to be trained as an Operative for The Agency—a secret, elite group of supernatural peacekeepers.