Living in the near future, for Samuel Bordeaux, apart from lack of a girlfriend, was pretty good. Loving parents, a job at the family bookstore, even a cool car. Until, on the night of his twentieth birthday, everything changed... Sam will discover there is more to the world than he ever dreamed could be real outside his cherished books or worst nightmares. Super powered men and women, secret societies, heavily armed soldiers, Vatican intrigue, a beautiful, mysterious woman, and a great and terrible prophecy.