Ann Miller wins an unusual lottery she didn't even remember entering. Now she and her life partner, Dave, must face the most difficult decisions of their lives. Indeed, Ann is looking at the greatest challenge ever afforded by a human being. She is intrigued. But she may end up facing it alone, given the trends in the disintegrating world cultures of the 21st through 24th centuries. Those years drag on through chaos and then isolation. Ann struggles to keep her mental balance but slips deeper into the memory hole of her prior life. Sophisticated wars and environmental collapse have left no one with much hope. But a powerful rescue effort from another galaxy helps save Ann's sanity. Then, reinvigorated by a reunion with her partner, and buoyed by a select group of survivors from her planet, Ann finally realizes her leadership potential. She becomes wholly engrossed in the reclamation of the world. The weight of the decisions falling upon her shoulders on where on our degraded planet reclamation efforts will be undertaken - and where not - is staggering. But with love and mutual support, and amazing futuristic technological help, she and her inspired group forge the creation of a new life. And with her immortality, a life better by far than the one they knew before. Or ever existed.