There’s a Storm coming - a Dark War on the horizon. Only people with the Sight can win the war and save the future.
Charlie Holloway thinks he's just a regular fourteen-year-old until he is sent to Grayrigg School, where he learns that he has a secret, psychic power that only a fraction of the human race possesses: the Sight. At some indeterminate point in the future, the world is destined to fall to a terrible force known only as the Storm - unless the Sighted can stop it.
At Grayrigg, Charlie tries to balance a normal education with learning to use his newfound abilities, discovering something extraordinary in the most ordinary things, whilst befriending two of his new classmates, Izzy Stephenson and Alex Waterfield and finding himself attracted to a third: Jen Moore. Jen - depressed and disenchanted with the school - has joined a mysterious group called the Storm Chasers. Their leader, the charismatic Hurricane, insists they are the only hope humanity will have come the Dark War, but Charlie suspects a much more sinister purpose ... and soon, Grayrigg is under attack from an old evil with a new face.
Only Charlie and his friends can defend the school - but will they learn the lessons from the past needed to save the present day?