For two centuries, the Beale Ciphers have guarded the secret of a lost fortune. But what if the real treasure isn't gold, but a truth that could unravel time? Bruce Beale, a broke college student haunted by his eccentric great-grandfather’s legacy, inherits a mysterious, unopenable box. the legendary, unsolved Beale Ciphers. Driven by financial desperation and the allure of an impossible puzzle, Bruce enlists his brilliant friends—a coder, a linguist, a mathematician, and a historian—to crack the code. Their makeshift AI, Cipher-X, becomes their key. But as they peel back layers of cryptic numbers and historical context, they uncover something far more terrifying than a powerful, unstable chronological anomaly, meticulously hidden by Thomas Jefferson Beale not as treasure, but as a dangerous secret. Their discovery ignites a desperate race against the Preservers of Truth, a shadowy, ruthless organization that has hunted the anomaly for generations, willing to kill to control its reality-bending power. From secluded cabins in Virginia to the ancient canyons of the American West, the students are outgunned, outmaneuvered, and constantly hunted. Can a group of desperate college kids protect a device that defies the laws of physics? Or will the ultimate truth of the Beale Ciphers prove too dangerous to ever truly be unsolved?