Michael always knew that he was different, but he never knew how different until the day he discovered that he was born into a family with very special abilities. As he battles against evil, Michael, a self-declared atheist, must reconcile this evil with his own beliefs. Jonah, a man born many years after Michael, battles the same dark, overwhelming forceswith little more than his wit and his heart. Michael and Jonah's stories are woven together into a tale that stretches across the ages.