Dave's agreement with Doc and Sally is to help the two adventurous scientists disappear into the future. But being left behind by the closest people Dave has to family isn't the bargain the eighteen-year-old expected. When Dave follows after his mentors, calibration issues place him centuries past his target date. Countless years and miles of wilderness separate him from Doc and Sally. Dave must survive in a primitive new world that has been waiting for him for a very . . . long . . . time . . .

Captain Rene Arseni is used to being the focus of too much attention. Younger brother of the late High Consort and of the Imperial High Commander, friend of the High King, and leader of the famous Three-headed Dragons, the one thing he never gets is someone wants him, without the Arseni name and imperial ties. Lord Tara Grase is used to being overlooked and underestimated-except, of course, when people are in the mood to laugh at the court eccentric. Bored and dreading the marriage his parents are negotiating for him, Tara leaps at the chance to be of use to the Three-headed Dragons. Nor does he mind when Rene proposes a secret affair. A bit of fun is exactly what he needs before returning home to settle into the life his family has all planned out...