Eleanor Chaplette: survivor of the massacre of the Paris Commune, 1871. With the help of a mystical race of Phoenixes, she traverses time, saving innocent people on the margins of history from their brutal, cruel fates. She doesnÕt change history; she just edits the smallest of details.
But now history has gone wrong.
Spain, the early 19th century: Mansel Dominguez y Luna, an abbot frustrated at his countrymen falling for ideas of progress and liberty, takes on the most important mission of his life.
Australia, the late 19th century: Rena Wenck, daughter of an eccentric salvage operator, sails to investigate the mysterious, impossible appearance of an entirely new island off the coast of Sydney.
The future: the Earth is dead, wrapped in plastic.
Somehow, these disparate events are linked. Someone is rewriting history, and if Eleanor doesnÕt stop it, all of humanity may be swallowed by its ravenous mouthÉ