In the gleaming, peaceful utopia of 2342 A.D., a world governed by a benevolent AI called the Oracle, Royal Steward and temporal historian Princess Kaelen discovers a terrifying anomaly. The past is being rewritten, and her perfect future is being erased from existence. The culprit is Malakor, a brilliant and tyrannical exile from her time who has traveled to the 20th century to hijack history and build a global empire of absolute control.
Defying her council, Kaelen makes a desperate, one-way jump to New York City, 1996. Stranded in a chaotic, analog world and cut off from the Oracle's guidance, she must adapt to survive. Her only hope is to ally with Dr. Aris Thorne, a disgraced but visionary computer scientist whose theories about artificial intelligence were ridiculed in his time but are Kaelen's reality.
Together, they must race against time to stop Malakor, who has already established himself as a powerful tech mogul and is secretly seeding the world's budding internet with his predatory, futuristic code. Unable to fight his superior technology head-on, Kaelen and Aris must learn to fight from the shadows, planting their own echoes of hope in the machine. It is a battle of philosophies: Malakor's cold, calculated logic against Kaelen's belief in the beautiful, unpredictable chaos of human free will. Kaelen, a princess from a perfect future, must risk becoming a ghost of history to ensure that humanity has a future at all.