Straddling the fence between ‘childish’ and ‘brilliant,’ physics prodigy Franny White is a heartbeat away from earning her Master’s Degree from Cornell University. Straight-laced and methodical, she has plotted her life’s course down to the last predictable detail. On her 19th birthday, however, she discovers, by chance, that her blood type is the rarest in the world, and that her family’s DNA contains the elusive protein chain necessary for creating the vaccines that will wipe out virtually all illnesses and diseases. When she excitedly tells her parents, she learns that she's not really their child, and as a result, suffers a debilitating panic attack. She falls to the floor, is knocked unconscious, and awakens in a dark forest with a strange man and woman who seem to have kidnapped her. And that's just the beginning of her new, twisted reality!
The mysterious woman informs Franny and the young man, who is also a modern-day New Yorker, that she has transported them 317 years back in time. She then explains that they are the last three immortals on earth, and that they must join forces to somehow destroy the merciless, un-killable psychopath who has an ancient, lethal grudge against their fragile race. If they fail, immortals will disappear forever, and their brutal enemy will re-direct his deadly crusade toward humans, until none remain. As Franny's terrifying destiny reveals itself, she takes solace in the unyielding loyalty of her two companions—the intriguing and passionate Staten Islander who thaws her frigid heart, and the enigmatic, 5,000-year-old woman who quickly becomes their trusted friend and mentor.
On a journey that swerves precariously between romance and tragedy, Franny travels Into The Hourglass, unwittingly alters the course of early American history, and lands in the center of the horrifying conflict that will ultimately determine the future of not only her own kind, but that of all humanity.
