Time is of the essence...

A young book editor stumbles from the site of a chemical attack in a London subway, accepts a woman's offer of help, and then vanishes...  A group of boys in upstate New York goes sledding.  One never comes home...  A military convoy approaches a lone figure on a dusty road in southern Iraq.  The woman is Army Chaplain Jamie Richards - and it seems she's been gone a lifetime.

After two years in Eden, Jamie has chosen to return to the "terris" world as a duel citizen.  But she soon discovers that seemingly random kidnappings are fatefully and tragically connected.  The victims, all descendants of Eden, have the one thing people outside of paradise want - a way to live forever.