Snake River, Idaho, 1989: Ariel Ben, a specialist in managing toxic materials at an isolated nuclear plant, sees her orderly life collapse when her cousin is murdered by unknown assailants. His terrible death makes her the sole heir to the family inheritance: a mysterious cache of manuscripts that lead her to the deadly center of an international conspiracy and a centuries-old mystery.

Jerusalem, Year of Salvation 32: In the last week of Christ's life, as the world stands on the threshold of a new two-thousand-year cycle, Emperor Tiberius works feverishly to decipher the scattered elements of an ancient riddle. He will not be the only one. Because whoever gathers and interprets these hidden elements will gain the power to control the fate of the entire world…

Now, at the center of this cycle of ancient riddles, stands the only woman who can weave the threads into a tapestry: Ariel Ben. What strange forces are buried in the manuscripts? As Ariel traverses continents to uncover the secrets of her family's past, she begins to gradually uncover the chilling truth of the millennium we are living in.