Shanghai, 1920. Onboard the research ship Expedient, two teens, Becca and Doug MacKenzie, anxiously await news of their missing parents . . . and stumble across their uncle’s secrets and a mysterious organization.

England 2002. Joshua Mowll inerits a remarkable archive of documents and painstakingly pieces together a series of extraordinary events that took place more than eighty years earlier.

This is the story of an ancient order created to protect the world from evil and two young people who get caught up in an astonishing adventure . . . with far-reaching consequences for the whole world.