Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "Back to the present - They found him lying in a field near the local high school and brought him to the emergency ward at Liberty Hospital in Iowa. Suffering from multiple wounds and near death, he was a man with no discernible past, no traceable identity, and no knowledge of who he was or how he had gotten there. It was during his recovery that the nightmares began. First there were the odd flashes of memory, the vivid images of violence, of killing, of warfare, and finally a name - Carrigan. And then there was the world in which he now found himself, twentieth century America - a time and a place with which he was completely unfamiliar. Chief Resident Shawna Nicholson was the only one who managed to piece together the shocking truth about Liberty Hospital's mysterious patient. Incredible as it seemed, he could only be a man out of time, sent back to her present from a future neither he nor she wanted to contemplate. But they soon discovered that Carrigan's own time had not forgotten about him when deadly pursuers suddenly turned up, determined to destroy Carrigan - and ready to take out anyone who got in the way."