Roxanne Wyatt is many things. She's very tall, very smart, unwittingly cool, and a science geek. She's also a holographic tattoo-bearing member of the Order, the ancient group that keeps the secret of zero point crystals. She's beginning to adjust to her own Black crystal bond and to the special powers her bond has given her-powers any government on earth would kill to possess. That's a lot for an eighteen year old to be. In this second book of the Zero Point series, Roxanne Wyatt is planning to go back in time to rescue her father. New information has surfaced to indicate that his death was not accident, but was cold-blooded murder. But before she and her love, Alex de Cala, can go back in time to prevent her father's murder, Roxanne is caught between powerful forces vying for the Black Matrix machine, an ominous technology capable of destroying worlds. Once again, Aymara-the immortal who killed her father when Roxanne was three years old-is threatening all Roxanne holds dear. Alex takes steps to protect her by taking her to his grandfather Jacinto's villa in Lake Como, Italy. But all the precautions and crystal-based technologies are not enough. Suddenly Roxanne is flung back through time, to awaken alone on a wind-swept Peruvian shore in the year 1817. Alex is nowhere to be found. Instead, another immortal, a mysterious Englishman named Marco Benalcazar, rescues her-or does he? Is he protecting her, or is he really holding her captive? He claims to be part of the Order, but she begins to suspect that he may be working with their rivals-and hers-Veritas Mundus. Will the forces of Veritas finally defeat the Order, or is there another player in the mix? What will she find when she untangles the web of deceit surrounding the Black Matrix machine?"