Magic, some believe, comes from evil. Others say it is linked to what is divine. Its source remains a mystery with one thing undisputable - magic is inherited through blood. In 1989, young aspiring archeologist Frances Chance uncovers the dig of a lifetime. In the jungles of Uganda, a raging thunderstorm unearths a most unusual site - a huge circle of caking mud composed of the bones of hundreds of beasts and at its center an ancient cylindrical artifact with perplexing glyphs - an artifact that will ruin Frances' reputation and threaten the life of his yet born daughter, Memory. Decades...