What if you have half a second to stop the
extinction of the human race? What if that pivotal day to save
humanity depends on you saving your own life? Catherine’s life and
humanity’s continued existence depend on her ability and willingness
to believe in an altered, future timeline with a colony of Earth
inhabitants. It couldn’t come at a worse time. Catherine’s father dies
unexpectedly. The pressure of her research and advocacy work adds
dead weight to her life’s precarious tipping points. Catherine’s losing
battles includes sleep deprivation. Sleep eludes her, because when it
does come, she finds herself repeatedly dreaming about standing on
the same high plateau with her greyhound dog, Addy, and a stranger
(Keitha) & her dog (Murphey) surrounded by plants and animals
and insects, and then poof! The living landscape transforms into ash.
Catherine does not suspect that she is the lynch pin, but she is the
one who must stop the Machiavellians from shifting Earth’s future
timeline, resulting in the colony’s extinction. But, because of her own
beliefs in the Hau de no sau nee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy)
principal that we have to consider the effect decisions have on descendants
seven generations into the future, Catherine pauses and reaches back
into her own past generations until her ancestor, Shi Ma, from the
Lipan Indian tribe, the one who passed on her family’s oral history,
reminds her that she’s connected to something beyond the people
and place of her time, her now. Catherine puts this belief to the
ultimate test when she learns that ‘the event’ is her own death. In
order to stop it, she must walk directly into its path.
