On the night Lloyd Merritt is busted loose from jail, where he's serving time for the theft of a million dollars in gold coins, his history is rewritten with a tragic end. A hundred years in the future, Damian Merritt wakes up to find a strange box that will buy him another last chance to set things right.
Meanwhile, a shadowy figure known only as the Doctor sets about gathering people he calls Echoes under his influence. People with the power to change the very fabric of time. People who can help him bend the world to his aim.
When the Merritts get in the Doctor's way, they make a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.