Tim Weed

Separated by ten thousand years, a team of scientists and their test subject must work together to save the human species—before it's too late.

Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked into the forest on their rural Vermont property and never came back.

New England, 1643. In a walled English village crouched at the edge of a wilderness believed to be haunted by monsters and devil-worshiping savages, Will Poole chafes against the constraints of Puritan society and is visited by strange hallucinations that fill him with unease....

A high-altitude lake is the point of departure for these stories of dark adventure, in which fishing guides, amateur sportsmen, teenage misfits, scientists, mountaineers, and expatriates embark on disquieting journeys of self-discovery in far-flung places....