Investigating two burned bodies connected by a mysterious tattoo and a string of baffling miracle cures, medical examiner Laura Hanning follows leads to a cult that claims to possess a fabled healing substance and a violent brotherhood that believes that God intends for humanity to suffer.

Follows the transformations of a confiscated, mysterious technology, hidden in a bunker lab below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station on the edge of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, that has been slowly changing the world throughout the decades since World War II.