"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...

After his father dies, Peter moves suddenly and somewhat mysteriously with his mother to the country from the city, where he befriends two outcasts at school and begins to wonder what secrets his mother is hiding in a locked attic room.