When Titus Carneades is saved from a traffic death by a mysterious young woman who quickly vanishes-telling him, "It is not yet your time," he finds himself drawn into a high-profile terrorist kidnapping of a Chinese businessman in which the same woman has interfered. Both fascinated and troubled, Titus volunteers to help government agents resolve the crisis and encounters the woman's mentor, the suave and avuncular founder of the Apologizers, a group who believes that God has forsaken humanity and must be lured back by good deeds.

This odd trio embark on a perilous odyssey that includes imprisonment in a labyrinthine security complex under the ruins of the World Trade Center; flight through a murky unfinished tunnel beneath the Hudson River, a safe house masquerading as a defunct museum; and a perilous train ride to link up with a terror cell. Ultimately, the reluctant Titus will face a rendezvous with life, love, death, and destiny in the green wilds of New York's Hudson Valley.