It's the year 2149. Earth is dying, the atmosphere is becoming impossible to breathe in, and most hope is lost. Most. Flora Goldman is seventeen years old, struggling to surrvive on earth. Her whole family is dead. She lives on her own in a small apartment, gathering scarce food and water supplies when she can. At Hope Plaza, a huge ring-shaped structure in Chicago, scientists have discovered a rift in space in time, which allows people to step through and travel 85 million years back in time, the time of the prehistoric earth. Every now and then, certain people are chosen or pay to travel through the rift on a pilgrimage. The rift was taken as a sign; a sign of destiny; a sign for the human race to start afresh. When Flora is chosen, how will she cope with the change? Who will she meet? What will happen? Terra Nova: A Second Chance