Ezra, a five-year-old orphan, awakens from a high fever with a terrifying gift: his sketchbook predicts bloody deaths five years into the future. In his drawings, his gentle foster father Alistair Vance—a once-proud heir to a decaying old-money fortune—is manipulated, drained, and ultimately killed in a staged car accident by his manipulative fiancée Serena. But in that dark vision, the only person who mourns Alistair, and even avenges him by killing Serena, is his most bitter rival: Ronan Gallagher, a Wall Street venture capitalist with deep Irish mob ties. As the prophecy begins to unfold, Alistair must confront the true dangers around him, trusting the very "beast" he once despised, while Ezra's drawings become a weapon to expose hidden conspiracies. Together, they unravel a decades-old family betrayal, survive deadly assassinations, and discover that the true enemy lies not in the shadows, but within the walls of Alistair's own ancestral home.
