A race to find the treasure of the last Czar has uncovered an ancient evil. When Czar Nicholas II was executed with his family, it brought Russia's Romanov dynasty to an end. But some believed that the Czar's children, Alexei and Anastasia, survived the slaughter and escaped with the royal treasury. Nearly a hundred years later, a battered old journal that appears to date back to the night of the execution turns up in a second-hand bookshop. Inside are clues, not only to the fate of the Czar's children, but also to the location of the Romanov treasure. Major Jack Collins of the Event Group, a top-secret agency dedicated to revealing the truth about history's greatest myths and legends, follows the lead deep into Russia's vast, unexplored wilderness where he and his team are soon confronted by a terrifying, even more incredible secret . . .