New friends, new enemies, and a dangerous scientific expedition await Marie. Separated by a temporal shift phenomenon, the human survivors are together again. But where some, such as Marie and Alex, have only spent a few weeks on their new planet, for the others it s been six years! Six years they vet spent with the Holograms, fellow castaways belonging to a melanoid race, one of whom Marie had rescued from hostile aliens. The Holograms have a plan: to use the very quantum anomalies that cause those temporal jumps in order to leave the planet."