Two college students hiking the Southwest discover a strange cavern of beauty and intrigue. The site appears to be very ancient but there is no explanation for the complex way it was created in a remote, isolated canyon. Grant Winslow, a young Washington, D.C. reporter, has a lot to learn about how Washington hides and keeps its secrets. Assigned to a story about millions of dollars missing from a Congressman's office, Grant is led to begin digging through the archeology of the Southwest. That some congressional secrets would involve the previously unknown caves and the discoveries of the student explores involves Grant with a mysterious contact know only as The Caveman, and leads him through a world of top secret information that gets deeper and darker and more dangerous as he investigates.