Doctor Ilsa Blaine

Codename: Doc

Abilities: Designs programmable bioware, enhanced understanding of brain chemistry

Mission: Research, analyze, and troubleshoot the team's active microchips

On the cutting edge of neuroscience, Ilsa is developing microchips that can be inserted into the brain and deliver information. The applications are endless, but her current goal is just to get dogs to return to their owners should they become "lost." When her college roommate turns up asking for lunch, she's hardly prepared for the chaos that follows or the revelation her chip changed the world and the lives of five heroes from the future. And now they need her help....

Garrett Fox

Codename: The Viper

Abilities: toxins, poisons, and assassination; he can kill with a touch

Mission: Protect Ilsa Blaine

One of five desperate men sent back in time to save the future, Garrett volunteers to be the doctor's guinea pig as she studies their neuro-chips. It's not his first time being a lab rat. In close quarters, the unthinkable happens, an attraction that could kill Ilsa. Drawn together by science, and on the fast track to destiny, Ilsa must prove to Garrett he isn't toxic to everything and save his team from their chips before they can end them....

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. An alliance with Halo has given their leader a taste of hope. For these five lonely soldiers, the single emotion may prove their most dangerous threat.