At the age of sixteen, Sergei killed his own father. Or what was left of him.

While Sergei’s father had been the victim of a drowning accident, the man who sank beneath the waters of the Volkhov River in Novgorod, Russia, was not the man who emerged from its icy depths. That man—the miraculous survivor of a near-death incident—was a TRAVELER.

By this time, Sergei had already begun to hear the screams in his waking hours and see apocalyptic visions of dark spirits in his nightmares. The Ether had laid its claim upon him and soon, as a TOUCHSTONE, he would eventually gain the power to move freely in and out of that terrifying place.  But such power is often a curse… a curse Purusha Ventures is determined to take advantage of.

Now Sergei works as part of a covert unit whose mission is to locate and destroy Travelers at all costs. It’s a job Sergei believes in, but one he does not relish. It’s also one that has him on a collision course with Bodie Taylor.  The result of this fateful meeting will save one man’s life… and irrevocably change the other’s destiny.