Everything beautiful must eventually perish, crumble to dust and be scoured from the face of the world by the remorseless winds of time...for all of our beauty, you and I will be no different. Elizabeth Simpson After seemingly dancing out of the jaws of the apocalypse, Elizabeth Simpson experiences a period of contentment and tranquility, but as the few mortals who populate her life reach the end of theirs, she finds herself alone with the prospect of an eternity of isolation stretched before her. In an ancient Greek village on the ocean, Elizabeth finds a quiet sanctuary, but in a near future where privacy is a lost commodity, she is inexorably drawn into a deadly snare by a dying plunderer who is desperate to defy mortality. Exposed, Elizabeth soon finds her bitter past bearing down upon her and when she turns to Cynara for aid, a heart-rending twist of circumstances brings their story to an emphatic end.