The year is 2052, and the world is healing from another Holy War. John, the oversized fourteen-year-old mulatto orphan, suddenly finds his life turned upside down and sets out to find the killers of his parents. Enduring unprecedented hardships, yet fueled by determined revenge, he makes his way west to Los Angeles.

On the night John locates the killers, a black cat thwarts his vengeance, and he finds himself serving time at the state boarding house. Enter Simon, the Japanese self-proclaimed bad boy, and Emmanuel Jesus Gideon, the articulately gifted albino boy-two twelve-year-old misfits who become his best friends.

After Father Michael, headmaster of the boarding house, turns up murdered, without loving parents to guide them or a penny in their pockets, the three rag-tag adolescents set out on a fantastic quest to recover a set of Holy artifacts, which Emmanuel insists have everything to do with their destinies.

Will John find his revenge? Does the sudden bounty on their heads have anything to do with the murder of Father Michael? And why did Emmanuel allow the fourteen-year-old redhead to join them? This epic fable filled with danger, action, mystery, and prophecy, with a hint of romance, is the perfect book to share with the family.