New corrections officer Nathan Taylor finds his new job at the maximum security prison, Black Mountain, exciting, challenging, and a bit frightening. But once he settles in, the job is like any other; he gains some friends and even finds a new love interest. But Taylor has a dark side—a secret he has kept since childhood. It is not until he encounters inmate Knight that that secret gets exploited and ripped apart; it is not until he experiences signs of stigmata that his life begins to spiral out of control; it is not until he is caught up in the biggest and most violent prison riot in United States history that he discovers a part of himself that may have a tremendous impact upon all of humanity.