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Paul Thorndyke, age 45, controls the time viewing process. His life-long friend, Quentin Cottle, persuades him to test the radical theory that the past can be entered and changed. Cottle wants to go back in time and destroy the deadly ash that plagues humanity. Cottle is accidentally lost in the past All memory of him in the future instantly vanishes. Relations between the Subterranean and the surface world are worse in the new time line. There is a legitimate threat of civil war that Thorndyke must find a way to stop. Tobias Raikhel also believes the past can be entered and changed. In an unauthorized jump he attempts to bring an 1863 Civil War soldier, who is about to die, into the future. The experiment goes terribly wrong. Several soldiers are brought into the 25th century through a rip in time. Thorndyke struggles to keep tensions in the Subterranean from exploding. He must also deal with the crisis caused by Raikhel’s unauthorized experiment. The cascading effect of an unintended rip in time threatens to destroy the domed city of Washington D.C..