Philadelphia, 1793. While the yellow fever turns the capital into a necropolis, Thomas Jefferson discovers a modified coin on Benjamin Franklin’s grave—a key that unlocks a hydraulic "drowning chamber" beneath Alexander Hamilton’s bank. Inside lies the Sinclair Deed of 1398, proof that the continent belongs to a shadow landlord.
Hamilton is paying the rent in blood and gold to keep the secret buried, but Jefferson refuses to submit. Retreating to Monticello, the Architect must forge a human weapon to break the lease: a young pathfinder named Meriwether Lewis. The Revolution is over, but the war for the deed has just begun.