THE BOOKS
The Series
A two-volume young adult adventure that begins with a wilderness survival test and ends with questions about eternity, civilization, and what lies beyond the world we think we know.
book 1
Bill, Sam, and Joe are not ordinary teenagers. Straight-A students, accomplished athletes, and Eagle Scouts, they are chosen as three of just twenty-four young men nationwide for Elifortrac — an elite training program that teaches survival, navigation, combat, flying, and deep-sea diving. After seventy grueling days, the cousins return home to southern California with skills most adults will never have.
Then they find the cave. Hidden in the mountains, it leads to something that should not exist — living creatures from a world that vanished millions of years ago. An eccentric genius inventor named Dr. Quigley becomes their unlikely mentor, equipping them with technology that bends the rules of known science. A Native American elder brings ancient knowledge that proves just as vital. And a ruthless international organization will stop at nothing to get what the boys have found.
By the time the FBI and INTERPOL are involved, Bill, Sam, and Joe are no longer just keeping a secret. They are at the center of something far bigger than they imagined.
book 2
With the sting operation behind them, the boys descend deeper than they have ever gone — nearly five hundred feet below the surface, down a rope made from Dr. Quigley's impossible intelligent fabric, into a world no satellite has ever detected.
Beneath a series of vast underground domes, they find an entire civilization. A community of small people, descendants of an ancient society preserved underground for generations, have been living, farming, and waiting. Alongside them: moas, the enormous extinct birds of New Zealand, and other creatures the surface world has long written off as gone. The giants from above are welcomed, tested, and eventually trusted with something enormous: helping this hidden community prepare for a journey to an entirely new world.
Beyond Time and Space is ultimately a story about young men who started out learning how to survive and ended up confronting questions about eternity.