When Mason Anderson's father is brutally murdered during a house invasion it sets in motion a series of events that turn the young man's life upside down. Told that the people he always believed to be his parents were actually nothing of the sort, his first reaction is of shock at the revelation.
This quickly gives way to a steely resolve to find his true parents and with just a few odds and ends which had been buried in a time capsule, Mason decides that he must discover who they are if he is ever to be at peace with what has happened.
Leaving his fianc?, Alicia, with a promise they will marry when he returns, Mason sets out on an epic journey that will cause him to look deep within himself as well as outwardly at the world he now inhabits.
Travelling across country, following leads that will take him into places where only danger lurks, Mason has only his determination to succeed to help him in his quest. But uncovering the identity of his real parents may not be all he had hoped for as he enters a murky world where anything could happen.
Can he overcome the dangers he faces and discover who his parents really were, why they gave him up as a baby and the truth behind an order to have him killed?