Past the stargate, Captain Jack Merrick welcomes the sight of beautiful Gaia Earth, but the starship Stella Lumina cruises a gray, bleak world that is anything but welcoming. When Jack conferred with Moira and Zeb, recently rescued from a Dark Planet, he didn't expect to be returning them to a wall-enclosed cell of forced labor. Yet in this timeline, cells like the one he gazes upon near Washington D.C. are all over the planet. Surrounded by dying forests, citizens filled with nanobots walk the streets like robots. Jolene Ashberg works in a biolab to restore distressed ecosystems, with a robot who claims not to be one. Their reclamation project rapidly loses ground against William Doors, the aspiring god of Earth who relentlessly dispatches planes to rain from the skies trails of poison lethal to living systems. Moira and Zeb's revelation of trafficked children here, including their own, stalls Jack's plans to return home. In this dismal, locked-down timeline of Earth, Stella Lumina and her crew may offer the children held in tunnels beneath the streets of Washington D.C. their only hope for rescue. EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a compelling visionary sci-fi tale, with post-apocalyptic elements, to bring the past full circle into the future, in this fifth book in the "New Earth Chronicles" series. [DRM-Free] BOOKS BY VICTORIA LEHRER: The Augur's View (New Earth Chronicles - Book 1); The Triskelion (New Earth Chronicles - Book 2); On Winged Gossamer (New Earth Chronicles - Book 3) ; Tall-ah Earth (New Earth Chronicles - Book 4) ; The Timeline (New Earth Chronicles - Book 5) ; Transformation (New Earth Chronicles - Book 6) MORE GREAT VISIONARY SCI-FI/FANTASY FROM EVOLVED PUBLISHING: The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky by David Litwack ; The "Grims' Truth" Series by Nathan Levi ; The "This Foreign Universe" Series by J.S. Sherwood ; The "Hellbound" Series by William LJ Galaini ; Six Bits by Michael Ringering

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