Young Matt List yearns for adventure. The son of a banker with a prominent but mysterious past, his unique abilities seem wasted as he herds cattle on desolate ranches in the Southwest while collecting debts for his father's bank. It's the dawn of an era when a new power, the United States, led by a dynamic president, begins to exert its military and economic influence on the world stage. It is also a time when gold reigns supreme, creating stable currency markets around the world under the steerage of the Bank of England's gold standard. But international monetary stability comes at an exacting price, with falling commodity prices and wrenching economic fluctuations impacting millions of ordinary Americans.Having survived war and now a graduate of West Point and England's Cambridge University, Dr. Matt List must use his background as a military officer, aviation pioneer, and founding member of the Federal Reserve to combat a world-wide conspiracy by Midas and his Eternal Ones, to manipulate gold markets. Using dark powers, they manipulate history to fulfill their catastrophic prophecy. The choices Matt makes will determine if he will forever be with beautiful but mysterious Helena, or permanently end the journey of the Eternal Ones where it all began-on earth.