"Time is mine. I will not share it." —Kaffer An insanely evil genius, Kaffer escapes from the future by hijacking a state-of-the-art time machine. His mission: destroy all natural timejumpers and time-travel technology so he alone can become the King of Time—with the power to possess infinity and control the fate of the world. But opposition comes in the form of a Kansas couple, Maude and Lucas Hawthorn; their far-thinking friends from the future, the Whispers; and an inventor who creates the building blocks of time-travel technology. It's a race to the finish, as Kaffer darts through time in his megalomaniacal quest to alter the past and eliminate all traces of the Hawthorns and their allies. If the Hawthorns lose, the world will end as they know it . . .