Book excerpt: Ava, Rebecca and the Major have returned from their adventure to Planet X, but Ava has miscalculated how the Earth should have been when they return. Climate change has been ravaging the planet and worse. The human population has declined to such an extent that they no longer can be trusted. Austerity has taken hold and the world's resources have become scarce. Anarchy now rules the land, and a lawless society reins over every town and city. John and Lacey have been spared much of the changes, but when a planned weekend for their sons, Joshua, and Thomas to visit has not materialised, they too must decide. Should they stay as their smallholding shrivels into a dust bowl as the climate has become so erratic with times of severe drought and temperatures reaching such highs and lows, no plant can survive. Or should they now leave to find their sons and head north for a better place to try to rebuild what they have lost? As her life unfolds, Rebecca realises something is wrong, very wrong. Coming back to Earth now seems like a bad idea and with everything going bad, but her revelations come in the form of a dog named Elsa, and then the true nightmare she is now in begins. Will Ava be able to correct the Nexus point in time that they have unknowingly crossed and changed the future? Or is the entire planet destined to be destroyed by something more powerful than even Ava could have calculated in her virtual world of computer coding and meticulous planning? Nothing is as it seems in this reality and now Ava must find a way back or forever be locked in a parallax timeline that may never be unlocked.