Bruce Farris has just won a school-wide contest at Mayfair Christian Academy by reading the Bible through in only nine weeks. Now the high school kids want to beat him up for stealing the prize from the saintly Rachael Holstein. As he's running away from the Varsity basketball team, Bruce is hit by a car, and the story breaks into two plot lines. Bruce wakes up in a beautiful and terrifying world. And yet, in the present, Bruce's mother, is waiting at his hospital bedside with growing fears about the unusual medical treatment he is receiving. Can somebody be in two places at once? Bruce gradually realizes that he is the subject of a dangerous experiment, and he also discovers that he is visiting the Earth before the Flood. He has to tackle the dangers in one world and try to win through to his own time and place. Dangerous enemies and friends in unlikely places meet him along the way.