Kalei 'Kal' Boyce is a disgraced college athlete in the midst of turning his life around in Atlanta following a steroid scandal and the recent passing of his mother. Finally headed down a path of stability focused on academics, Boyce's world is once again rocked when his beloved professor/mentor goes missing in connection to the brutal murder of his wife. Boyce hesitantly becomes involved with the intent of exonerating his teacher and shedding his own stigma as a quitter, inadvertently involving his ex-girlfriend and her new beau, but soon realizes the murder was part of a bigger puzzle-a life-and-death pursuit to locate a mythical Civil War antiquity before a racist mercenary bell-bent on rewriting history books. The group of three must not only overcome their own personal jealousies toward each other, but race against time and overwhelming odds to surmount a variety of mental and physical challenges on both coasts of the United States, including California's capital, unearthing shocking new facts about their country's past along the way.