Most important rules of time surveillance; never disrupt your host timeline and never step into the future. Decorated Surveillance Specialist Vivian Leona of 6037 has broken both.Losing her husband, John Joseph Spruce, in the Nexus of time past, Vivian mistakenly pulls the wrong man into the future, a man recorded by history as having died on that very day in 1837. The consequences for keeping him alive in the future could prove far worse than Vivian bargains for, especially in the American South's New Golden Age, 4037, where any overt emotion or cause of such, like racism, is seen as a deadly contagion-'conditions' cured only by euthanasia.Slave foreman and bounty hunter 'Tucker' John Josephus Spruce of 1837 is called 'The Animal' by those he hunts, and a 'necessary evil' by those who enlist his skills, but are his 'talents' enough to keep him alive when he steps into a deadly snare set twenty-two hundred years in the future where he is now pawn and prey?Will Tucker John's instincts lead him towards retribution for his abduction, or will they make Vivian his only ally while setting him on an unexpected hunt for the one not only out for his blood, but the very woman's he's purposed to destroy?