Edward Garrett and his young wife Marianne have been living back in the twenty-first century for four years now. Marianne has won a gold medal at the Olympics ... and Edward? He's been stuck in a dead-end job, dreaming of the days when he led armies and walked the lands of the far future with Marcus and Daniel. A parade in Marianne's honor in their hometown is cut short by a storm, an enormous storm like only Edward and Marianne have seen before. When it subsides, they are back in the future they once knew, even closer to the end of the world than before. But Lasten, who they knew before as an old man, is now a young man and the land of Nid is populated as it had been in his youth ... and led by a madman who believes his society is dying and, so, must be put out of its misery. In the course of trying to save the future, and discover why they have been summoned out of their own time, Marianne and Edward discover a whole new culture and race of men most people believed was only a legend until the Garretts burst through with irrefutable evidence that the legends are true. The world will never be same, but can it survive the change long enough to make it to the end of time itself?