On 22 July 1863, fifty-three captured Confederate officers were brutally murdered on the orders of a southern-born Union turncoat near Gettysburg. 2013: A descendant of the officer who ordered the Gettysburg Massacre is a Senator with Presidential ambitions.The corrupt Senator is working illegally with an oil company to secure Government contracts in return for secret funding. When a mass grave is unearthed near Gettysburg, reporter Nick Armstrong stumbles upon the story of the massacre. Helped by a retired History Professor named Patrick Morgenstern, Nick begins to uncover the startling connections to the present. With billions of dollars in jeopardy, the oil company CEO hires an assassin to silence Morgenstern in an attempt to prevent further investigations that might reveal more damaging information. The hired gun's success at killing the Professor forces Nick and Morgenstern’s niece, Mary Quinlan, to go on the run. Fleeing for their lives, Nick and Mary must solve the riddle of the massacre before the killer catches up with them.