A client had vanished, and Jay Corcoran went to investigate the man's empty hotel suite.... his trick vision spotted the room-sized box stuck to the outside wall of the suite. Stumped, he cabled his long-time pal Tom Boone, who could 'step around a corner' into some otherwhere. Boone stepped into the box, taking Corcoran with him.... to 1745 England. There they found a family of refugees from a million years in a future.... where alien Infinites were converting humanity to incorporeal form....