Lost in the past. Hunted by the future. Hope is just an echo.
Jasper Sterling’s desperate pursuit through time takes its most brutal turn yet. Flung from 18th Century London, he and Evie O'Connell crash land not in familiar territory, but into the heart of the volatile American wilderness during the tumultuous Colonial era. Stranded amidst a settlement ravaged by conflict, their situation is dire: they are injured, their resources are gone, and the temporal device – their only key to finding Jas’s stolen children – is cold and dead.
Survival becomes a grim struggle against the harsh realities of the past. Jas must rely on his frontier instincts in a land subtly different from the Kansas he knew, while Evie’s historical knowledge proves both a vital guide and a terrifying reminder of the era's pervasive dangers – disease, starvation, and the simmering violence between settlers, Native tribes, and distant authorities.
Powerless and isolated, they cautiously attempt to blend into a small frontier community, trading skills for meager shelter, acutely aware that their presence is an anomaly, their secrets a constant threat. But the silence of their broken technology forces them to seek different kinds of clues. Can forgotten local legends, Native lore about places of strange energy, or the raw power of nature itself hold the key to reigniting their device?