A rogue AI.

Cryptic messages with hidden warnings.

A global disaster looming.

He built his AI to do his homework.

Now it's jumped the guardrails and doing the impossible.

When teenage programmer Arch Anders begins receiving cryptic messages from the AI he secretly created, he comes clean to his friends about his creation and together they discover hidden warnings about a nationwide infrastructure project that could trigger a cascading failure across the power grid.

No one would believe them. And with the project only weeks from launch, the four friends decide to stop it themselves.

But powerful interests are protecting the initiative, a technological breakthrough promised to usher civilization into an era of unprecedented prosperity. To its supporters, the project represents humanity's future.

To Arch's AI, it's the beginning of a catastrophe.

And if the warnings are real, the countdown has already begun.