A modern architect's descent into a dark world reveals two intertwined odysseys: an ancient monk's effort to weave his own fate, and the deadly struggle fifteen centuries later to possess the powerful relic he was charged to protect. Ciaran, a gifted young Irishman, joins an abbey hoping to escape his father's life at sea, yet is subsequently drafted for a historic ocean crossing. Fifteen hundred years later in Chicago, architect Nathan Bang agrees to finish a design for a vanished colleague, and unwittingly enters a shadow world of clandestine projects and sinister clients. While providing...