When her mother suffers a heart attack, successful New York writer Stephanie Golden sets aside her job and fiancé to return to her hometown in Kansas. There she finds a family in turmoil and her younger sister Monica sinking into the dark world of drug addiction.

Apprehended by the police for the murder of a United States Senator's son, the FBI investigate the man's identity and are puzzled by the unique technology he has in his possession. A master plan is in motion as four travelers from our future use technology previously thought to be abandoned by the Nazis known as the The Bell. The mission: To move back in time to deliver Hitler the completed Bell and bring future technology to change the outcome of World War II, thereby altering the course of history. One traveler is captured by the FBI and interrogated. Struggling to discover his origin, technology, and medicine that is keeping him alive... After a bold escape from his captors the Traveler heads towards the mountains to continue on with his mission with the FBI in pursuit as they piece together the facts to figure out the real reason why he's here and to reveal.... THERE'S THREE MORE OUT THERE.

Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own safety —propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison with a police detective.