"Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise is invaluable. " "Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? " "Auger's task - apart from probing the nature of this alternate world - is to recover the lost property of a murdered agent before it falls into the wrong hands. But the dead agent had stumbled onto something that could change not only Auger's present, but Earth's past as well. " "With time running out, Auger retraces the dead agent's footsteps across a Europe that isn't quite the one in the history books. Shadowed by forces that would rather see her dead, the last thing she needs is the attention of a struggling private detective trying to close one last case. "--BOOK JACKET.