Jeremiah Townsend didn't ask to possess the gift of healing. When he saves a dying criminal who goes on to commit murder, his life and the choices he makes are thrust into an international spotlight as his world crumbles around him. While the threat of a doomsday cult looms on the horizon, he struggles to save his wife and his unborn child. Eventually he must face his greatest fear: deciding who must live and who must die.

In 1947, a rural Virginia town was thrown into chaos when a mysterious gray-skinned creature wandered into a revival service during the altar call. Six decades later, the opening of a time-capsule leads a pair of college students on a quest to find out what else happened the week of the Roswell incident.