Concert pianist Julia Franklin becomes the target of a ruthless secret society when she inherits a billion dollar bequest from US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
Julia is an international concert pianist who is losing her nerve. But stage fright is the least of her problems. Unknown to her, Julia is heir to a 200-year-old inheritance worth a billion dollars - enough to bankrupt America's oldest bank when the bequest it holds in trust matures.
Miles Bartholemew, of Bartholemew Equity and Trust, has to find the beneficiaries of the Franklin trust and deal with them permanently, before time runs out - or his family's bank will be ruined, and he will be wiped out.
Ben Franklin's 200-year-old financial experiment is due to mature, setting Julia and Miles on a collision course which neither wants and neither can avoid. But the Franklin bequest contains another, deeper secret - one that could cost both of them their lives.
A murderous occult society has been waiting and watching in the shadows for two centuries for its moment to fulfil an ancient destiny by arranging fatal ‘accidents’ for all the beneficiaries of the Franklin bequest and claiming the prize.
With her own sanity in doubt and no allies to help her, Julia must find and confront the ruthless men and women who are out to destroy her.