Woman Out of Time

Abrasax Chronicles brings the story arc to closure.

Much is revealed as Greg Simmons, field agent for the FBI, gets assigned to the case of a hospital patient brought in by a third-party; purportedly hit by lightning and DOA -but got better.

He meets Isabelle who we later learn is Lady Zastra of Abras, biomimetic android]. Marooned on Earth thirty millennia ago, She was Ishtar to the Semites or Phoenicians, Inanna in Sumer and Babylon, and Isis to the Egyptians. Throughout human history, she has had many names: Bel, Belitus, Diana, Ninlil, and Astarte.

Proactive in her waiting, she has secretly embedded herself into the stockholder lists of many large corporations, hiding behind a myriad of names and faces. A little tweak here, a little nudge there, quietly shepherding Earth's technology toward the day when it would be able to help her return to Abras.

None too soon -for out in space, the fleet of ravenous reptilian Drolla reach Abras -intent on making it their new homeworld. For humanity to avoid the fate of being reduced to food for the Drolla, Earth and a parallel universe must join forces. But, as the tide battle turns in favor of mankind, a new saurian appears and proves that humans are not alone in the mastery of travel across the multiverse.

The final resolution of the war comes to rest, literally, in the hands of Lady Zastra and the outcome of brutal gladiatorial combat.