Horror and terrible desire fill the dreams of archeologist Caitlyn Kirby. In them, she experiences a creature capable of wiping humanity out of existence--a creature that is drawn in blood on the walls of a four-millennia-old Italian catacomb.Caitlyn doesn't know it, but she's stumbled across evidence of the Awakening. Throughout time, powerful beings have burst forth to lay waste and destroy anything daring to live on the earth's surface. Last time, the dinosaurs perished. Now it's humanity's turn.Desperate to find a way to prevent the Awakening, Caitlyn discovers a slim chance of survival hidden in the past. Four thousand years ago, humanity was spared--or at least given a reprieve. Her only chance is to find out why and hope that what worked once before still holds power over the dark entity in Caitlyn Kirby's dreams--an entity that now walks the earth in human form.