Adam Washington, a young medical student from New York seems to have it all. But when he travels with his mother, a renowned historian, and father, an archaeologist to uncover a centuries old crypt in Sicily, his world is turned upside down.

Back in New York, Adam learns that his family has carried home a deadly, evolved bacteria that has survived for centuries… the same bacteria that caused Europe’s Black Death nearly 700 years before. While the plague begins to spread across the globe, Adam, his family, and a few new friends begin a race against time to not only find a cure, but to reveal the truth about exactly how this happened. He quickly learns that he is up against much more than just a plague, and that the viral outbreak was not an accident…