Ethan Kane should have been heir to the Kane dynasty of the mighty Alpha Enclave — but having never awakened a Gift, he was branded worthless. His own brother Damien, who believes only in power, stripped him of the family name and cast him into the Wastes to die. At rock bottom, Ethan binds to the mysterious Anomaly Hire System and is reborn — opening the apocalypse's only supermarket and turning the very S-Class Anomalies that terrify mankind into a staff that now fights to clock in. Armed with old-world goods, godlike employees, and an ironclad rulebook, he returns to reclaim everything stolen from him. But the hand that ruined him reaches far past his brother: the true enemy is Alpha's merciless Elder Council, who treat ordinary survivors as dust. As Ethan topples the warlords with rules and service instead of force, Damien realizes too late the fatal mistake he made. Can the "trash" they threw away forge a new order that shields the powerless — and dare he carry the fight all the way to the Anomaly Lord?
