When Richard King resigns his position at a New York brokerage on his forty-fifth birthday, he believes he is simply beginning the next chapter of his life. What follows is something altogether different. In a rare London bookshop, a dying Russian bookbinder presses two ancient manuscripts into his hands, books held in safekeeping across a lifetime, waiting for their rightful owner.

As Rick moves through Moscow, Washington, Scotland, Spain, and Japan, each encounter peels back another layer of a vast esoteric conspiracy: a secret brotherhood whose founding mission has been infiltrated by a shadowy inner circle.

Guided by Kabbalistic tradition, mystical visions, and a woman whose knowledge runs deeper than she reveals, Rick ascends, threshold by threshold, toward a truth that was written for him long before he was born.