Four short stories and one novel. Each story has a shift in time either physically or mentally in which the characters find themselves in the distant past, the near future, or reliving moments of their lives. Whether lost on a strange beach, or shifted into the far past because of time echoes bouncing off catastrophic events, or into the future because gravity waves passing through the solar system altered climate and shifted time; the characters need to find a way to survive the anomalies that caused their situation. And they do with strength and resilience and spirit that shines through.