It is the fall of 1864 and fourteen years since Chandra Jarvis plunged through a wormhole from San Francisco of 2150 into a parallel, 1850 universe along the Oregon Trail in Southwest Wyoming. A computer chip implanted in the base of Chandra’s skull as a child, and her futuristic smartsuit of special fibers helped her to navigate and survive the dangers of the Old West.After a tumultuous affair spanning two years and great distances, Chandra married, bore a daughter and spent the past twelve years teaching elementary school in Portland, Oregon. She and her husband embark on separate odysseys trying to influence an event that she knows is coming. They have to navigate the hazards imposed by Native American uprisings and the Civil War. Will they be able to accomplish this or is destiny too rigid and uncompromising to allow it?Rejoin Chandra in this fourth novel of the Parallel Past time travel series.