The catastrophic Purge War at the end of the twenty-first century
destroys planet Earth, jeopardizing the future for the remnants of
humanity. Horrific repercussions roll across the ages until, generations
later, a scientific group called the Time Forward Project harnesses a
deep-space wormhole in which they can travel through time. They find the
portal unstable and shrinking, but they have little choice but to take
desperate, drastic measures and journey back to prevent the war. Kristen
Winters is an angry, determined young woman who is fed up with the
miserable circumstances that life doles out. In a bold move, she escapes
and undergoes the horrific genetic modification required to become a
warrior-like time agent. As the protégé of the tough, cantankerous
Richard Kants, her potential threatens to overtake his prowess. Kants
has his own motives for changing the past, and he orchestrates his own
scheme on the side to improve the odds. Their uneasy partnership
dissipates when he is assassinated by a rival group from the future
called the Keplers, who thwart their missions at every turn. With his
death, Kristen mysteriously finds herself newly partnered with a
bewildered man from the early twenty-first century. Hunter Coburn is a
hot shot AI scientist who works for the FBI. He has pending wedding
plans, a high-paying job he loves, and is a geek with an I-Want-It-All
attitude, but suddenly must make sense of the glimpses of the future he
sees in freakish jumps. Together, Hunter and Kristen risk everything to
fight through the destructive forces in the past, present, and future.
In doing so, they must discover and rise to their own destinies through
the vivid, fast-paced, nearly incomprehensible challenges they face. If
they fail, all is lost. A provocative, imaginative, and endlessly
compelling work of science fiction, Future's Dark Past signals the
arrival of a distinctive new voice and a story that will simultaneously
haunt and electrify you.
