“So you’re blackmailing me into fighting your little rebellion-war thing?” Jason shook his head. “And you call yourself the good guys.” Interning in the classified Projects and Development wing of a government-owned facility over the summer will look good on his college engineering application next year. But Jason still hurts from his brother’s mysterious service-related death in Afghanistan and wants to know the truth. Instead, he finds other hidden documents, and borrows a time machine to escape his stressful life for a brief joyride into the future. Crash landing in the 26th century, he is kidnapped and blackmailed by rebellion forces waging war for their mega-city, Rath. The government, led by Drake Braken, has a new psychological weapon for humanely settling conflicts without mass bloodshed; “re-programming” a person, realigning their allegiance. When he hears of Jason’s time-traveling secrets through his shadowy double agent imbedded among the rebels, Braken hatches a plan to end the rebellion swiftly, steal Jason's secrets, and take his weapon and power to the next era. As war tensions rise, suspicions of who the menacing presence of the double agent is turns the rebellion against itself. Everyone is hiding dark secrets, including his girlfriend, and if Jason wants to rebuild his ship and return home after the war, he’ll need to get to the double agent and Braken first.