His story is part myth and his life, part legend . . . History knows him as the gatekeeper of Pontius Pilate and as the man who cannot die. He is Cartaphilus, the ruthless Roman centurion cursed to immortality for his role in the Crucifixion of Christ. He wanders the earth in torturous perpetuity seeking absolution for his terrible crimes and waiting. Waiting for the return of the Son of God. Now, 2,000 years later, Cartaphilus's chance for redemption has come. The fallen angel Lucifer has grown weary of waiting for his earthly reign to begin. He devises a sinister plan to steal ancient powerful relics and enlists the aid of his two most wicked disciples: Azrael, the Reaper of Death; and He Who Follows with Him, Naraka. They will use the otherworldly power of the relics to build Lucifer's unholy offspring, the antichrist, raise him from the depths of Hell and unleash him upon an unsuspecting world. Cartaphilus, the immortal man with nothing but time, must now race the clock to stop Lucifer's diabolical scheme and earn what has eluded him for so long: Salvation for his condemned and pitiful soul.