Elizabeth Lucas

Ten years after witnessing her older sister's brutal murder, Jenny Traylor leaves her hometown in North Carolina to start her freshman year at the University of New York City. Still traumatized by her sister's death and struggling with crippling agoraphobia, Jenny tries to cope with the overwhelming city and figure out her new life.

Three stories set in the future, each 50 years apart but all in the same Central Park location, reveal that the unexpected consequences of love lost can echo across generations. 2019 - At winter's first snowfall, a married teacher cuts school to meet up with her much younger lover for what she hopes will be the last time. 2070 - A father-to-be desperately searches for a mysterious object that will save his unborn child while on the run from a cybernetic security officer and a man who will do anything to stop him. 2130 - A brother and sister, who have spent their whole lives underground are banished from the colony and must weather the inhospitable surface of a destroyed planet.