Between Two Evils

When a faulty time machine deposits Diego at the top of a towering evergreen, he knows he's in the wrong place-but has no idea he's also in the wrong time. Naked and shivering in the primeval forest, he attempts to climb down-but slips, whacks his head on a branch, and tumbles into oblivion. He awakens inside a darkened room, crippled and disheartened, and must come to grips with the realization that he is marooned in a bleak alternate future. In this universe, what remains of the human race is trapped inside a handful of aging biodomes. With his mission failed, his world destroyed, and the one woman he loves dead, he can find no reason to go on living. Except Lani, the emotionally scarred doctor who must put Diego's broken body back together, refuses to let him die, and as Diego heals, their relationship becomes... complicated. He struggles to let go of the past but is unable to get Isabel out of his head-or his heart. Just when it seems he may be able to find some measure of happiness in a world teetering on the edge of extinction...

Shannon fights to stay alive inside a rogue biodome and discovers something totally unexpected... Peter. Lani is forced into the role of the reluctant heroine but rediscovers her street-kid mojo and sets out to find everything she's lost. Diego receives another dirty sock (and a note) from the poorly aimed fireball express: "The window between universes is closing." If Diego has any hope of getting back to Iz, he must get to the Magic Kingdom and power up the time machine before it is too late. What could possibly go wrong?