Apprentice conservator Chloe Bennett dedicates her days to restoring historical antiquities alongside her aunt until international smuggling syndicates loot a legendary ritual bronze caldron from their studio. While examining residue left behind at the crime scene, Chloe's touch inadvertently awakens Titus Locke, a bronze-clad ancient general whose spirit has guarded the relic across millennia. Displaced in the contemporary metropolis, the ancient warrior recognizes Chloe as his fated soulmate from an imperial dynasty.
Forming an unconventional investigative partnership, Chloe and Titus enter ruthless high-end appraisal competitions and clandestine overseas auctions orchestrated by antique oligarch Victor Stanford. As Victor unleashes mercenaries and forged provenance records to retain his looted treasures, Chloe uses ancestral metallurgical secrets to defeat fraudulent valuations. She must outsmart black-market syndicates and recover her country's heritage before Titus's spiritual tether dissolves into the modern ether.
