Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodges threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late.

Earth's timeline has shattered in "the Event," creating a frightening new world of prehistoric monsters, lost cultures, and strange futuristic perils. A ragtag band of survivors from different points throughout history have joined "Merlin," a mysterious figure who may be their only hope to save the world—if he is who he claims to be. When their twenty-third century ship the Vanuatu is sabotaged by an unknown enemy and thrown far off its course, the team must solve a dangerous new mystery, even as they are split apart and fighting to survive in a war-torn Shard World . . .