Brothers Coru and Payton Wisla pursue fugitive Moses Zhang through a sabotaged Time Bore to 2026 in a desperate bid to stop him from destroying their 2341 world. Coru arrives alone in 2036, ten years too late and in a devastating pandemic not in the histories. Civilization is now all about survival. He has one shot at restoring the future: find Wren Wood, save her father’s vital work upon which Coru’s world was constructed. Can he restore the future? Does it even exist anymore? If it doesn’t, how is he still here?

Time to expose the secrets of Able Island Armed with little more than a hand-drawn map of the mysterious Able Island, Coru quietly slips away from his friends at Freeland on the mission he was sent here to complete. Yes the Indies won the battle against Zhang's POE army but they've not yet won the war. No one is safe until Moses Zhang pays the ultimate price for the destruction he’s rained down on this world. Young Aiko—"Little Loved One”—wants out of her chambers. She’s sick of Papa’s rules, the suffocating confinement here in D&D, the constant testing, poking, prodding, her only companion the stone-hearted guardian Winston. She wants to be outside—to live a real life, be a normal teenager—and she has a plan… Coru’s and Aiko’s burning missions send them on a collision course straight into the watery caves beneath Able Island. Will they expose Zhang’s explosive secrets in time to stop him?