Attempting to leave his home is both dangerous and forbidden, but Arcon feels he must follow his heart as well as a higher calling. Somewhere out there, beyond the tall ArcPoint trees and intimidating needle brush that help keep his isolated community separate from the rest of the world is Elaina, a girl he has only had contact with through long outdated technology. Yet he senses she is his future, and that despite the good reasons his people had for retreating from society over 200 years ago, God wants to use him to somehow reconnect the two. In a narrative that jumps forward and backward through the centuries, Wozniak weaves an intriguing tale of bioengineering, biblical end times, romance, and adventure.

In this first installment of a story that employs elements of Tarzan and the Left Behind series but adds its own unique twists, the author presents a world divided by a terrible past. Arcon's ancestor, Lee Franklin, had been instrumental in creating a Christian community composed primarily of scientists and researchers who had worked to design the ArcPoint tree at a facility in the Mojave Desert. However, society was crumbling in a world where evil was being called good, and both war and natural disaster served to separate Lee's group completely from the rest of civilization. The trees, engineered to thrive in harsh conditions, quickly transformed the cut-off area into the Mojave Forest. Now, two centuries later, Arcon's escape from his home is the first attempt to bridge the gap between the cultures, but what he discovers on the other side of the Rift will challenge the preconceptions of both peoples.

Well-written and thought-provoking, Wozniak's book offers a new take on science and the end times. It is a welcome addition to Christian apocalyptic fiction.

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