Jodie Switzer is a biochemist, not a believer. But when a scientific excavation in the Kalahari Desert unearths an ancient stone, that line is stretched thin. At first touch, she is wrenched out of time, swept back to the first breath of creation in the Garden of Eden as Adam opens his eyes.

A Jewish scholar speaks the words etched into its surface. Na vened — Fugitive and Wanderer: Cain’s stone. Inscribed in God’s own hand. Hidden for millennia. And now in Jodie’s custody.

Heavenly attributes it demonstrated. Hellish forces it’s about to unleash.  Jodie, racing against time in a world gone mad, must find a way to barter for the sake of the innocents, for humanity itself, against impossible odds, in a thriller reminiscent of James Rollins and Dan Brown.