Why do people contain their thoughts in a diary? To confide in clean pages? To hold secrets amidst scrawled words and blotches of ink? Simply to organize muddled thoughts? How many people would kill to read your diary? Adam Davenport experiences the danger of hiding a diary containing the fate of the Earth and its inhabitants, from everyday people who want to help change the future by altering the present, and others with shocking greed. Opening the diary himself, Adam reads through May Abernathy, the writer, and learns not just of the Earth's fate, but of May's, and how her gift was being used in all the wrong ways. He soon finds himself captivated by her story and finds himself becoming part of it. But sometimes, stories don't have happy endings.