Rip's a good natured loser, trying to be happy despite a bad marriage and major poverty...until the day he helps a stranger in need, winds up at a weird picnic in the woods, parties too hardy, falls asleep. Because when Rip wakes up, the Earth has, changed. Everyone and everything he knows has, vanished. Wife, family, dog, home, even his country-gone. Rip's terrified, trapped in a new world, pulled out of place, torn out of time...But, what seems to be the gods' cruelest joke-might be their greatest gift...
