Sixty years later, a brilliant young couple working in biochemistry receive funding from the Thorne Foundation. Together they build an extraordinary life: marriage, children, a home, and a shared career devoted to solving the disease that killed a man decades before they were born. Then they succeed.

With the world watching, Edgar Thorne is about to become the first man in history to return from the dead. But some things were never meant to come back.

And when Edgar Thorne opens his eyes, two lives separated by sixty years are about to collide in a way no one could possibly have imagined.

In the 1930s, ruthless billionaire Edgar Thorne discovers that there is one thing his fortune cannot buy: time.

Diagnosed with an incurable disease and unwilling to accept death, Thorne pours his vast wealth into medical research before submitting himself to a radical and untested procedure. His body is frozen, his fortune placed in trust, and one instruction left behind: find a cure and bring him back.