Arthur Penn was a sucker for a lost cause. He rescued an old man from an ambush and carried him to a hospital, but he didn't expect a one-way trip. He didn't expect to find himself fighting off an amorous girl a century before the Pilgrims land. And he certainly didn't expect to be drafted into a bloody war raging across a thousand human centuries. Beautiful women. Brave men. Lonely machines. Terrifying aliens lost in a tunnel that connects every point in space and time. A ship that sails a universe so huge it can't be described in human words. A lady who wants to be a mother. A true woman with a disturbing talent with an ax. All hang on courage of a hero who'd rather be in Chicago.