Nobody could have predicted it. It was a simple Time Study mission to document the life and music of Ludwig Van Beethoven. But only seconds after the Time Machine cleared the docks catastrophe struck and the entire universe was hurled into a temporal paradox. Prague and Vienna were destroyed, Russia collapsed and Napoleon had invaded the United States Why? The only answers to be found were in the memory banks of the Time Machine itself, and the only people who could do anything about it were the Music Expert and his crew. But they were not alone. There was somebody else out there, and all he had on his mind was Armageddon. A new novel from the author of "The Galley," it is a space-time adventure spanning the centuries, where love, madness and the unpredictable all have far reaching consequences.