Mage Christian Wetherly of the British Bureau has found himself dreaming in a strange, long, lost secret language, and viewing the underground burial of sacred texts lost millennia ago--texts that if recovered and deciphered could lead to activation of the Amulet. He must find those texts before Rogan; so he travels to the States to discover what American law enforcement has unearthed in its investigations.

In the U.S. Christian is paired with Alec Anderson, a homicide detective investigating the string of murders who's been experiencing his own series of inexplicable dream visions. He soon discovers that the possibility of Rogan's resurfacing is not the only odd variable in his life: after years of denial he experiences an intense heated magnetism in the presence of Alex; and Alex demonstrates his own peculiar psychic gifts, even though he doesn't register on Christian's radar as a magic-user.