Publisher's Synopsis
Three hundred years ago, the world as we knew it collapsed.
A horrendous pandemic threatened to obliterate the human race. In order to contain the disease, the survivors built a protective Barrier around the afflicted zone. Anyone who touched its force shield died on the spot. Eventually, life behind the Barrier reverted back to the Dark Ages - while the unaffected world advanced further in its technological development. A young amateur inventor from the medieval area, Peter Matthieu accepts his friends' dare to cross the Barrier. Miraculously, he succeeds - but now he's struggling to navigate this new world of high science so far removed from his own bucolic existence. Confronted with these new challenges, Peter makes a new friend. Originally a scion of the highest caste of the Er-lans - the genetically modified elite of this new world - Hemiface was banished from his clan to lead a humble existence as a Barrier guard. Now he's helping Peter to learn the ropes of his new environment. The two young men are attracted to each other - but how can they ever be together, belonging to two opposing worlds? Especially when Peter learns about a mortal danger looming over everything he holds dear...
