Richard Hayes, a history teacher living in South Texas, stumbles upon a game hidden in the virtual recesses of cyberspace and quickly becomes immersed. Awed by the game's educational possibilities, Hayes introduces the game to his students with unpredictable and often disastrous results.

Poignant, fast-paced, and often disturbing, Everett's first novel demonstrates a revolutionary approach in the time travel genre and challenges the boundaries in alternate history fiction and dystopian literature.