Chararcters from CIRCLES AND REALMS return, including an otherworldly lady named Gabriella. Cale Allison is again on his sister's farm where his brother Paul was abducted ten years before. He projects himself into the ancient Sumeria where his leg is injured. 

He and an Asian lady friend are thrown into the future where the US continent has been flooded. They are both transported by helicopter to new islands in the Atlantic, but not before the young Asian girl is raoed by marauders. There meet GIllian Nash and others from that surreal place. 

What they learn is that the islands are under the control of a despotic regime. However, even these island elite are being watched by the Custodians, aliens or the Anunnaki who inflfuenced Sumer in ancient times,