Europa's Blood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798892435369)

What is inside of us? What are we meant to be? What is left when everything we clutch onto so dearly is yanked away?

High school student U-Jin Song falls through a portal created by a time machine and finds himself lost in the year 2499. Song makes friends with a local street vagrant named Pitzy. Soon after, he discovers that she is more than a common street rat; she is working undercover to help find information about an Earth plot to invade the Pearl of the Outworlds, a moon of Jupiter called Europa. The Pearl has a belly full of fresh water, which is desperately needed on Earth.

Song soon discovers that Pitzy is a Martian intelligence operative working with the Jupitorian inhabitants to stop the invasion, a group of half-animal, half-robot hybrid humanoids called aniborgs. Song's goal is to find his lost time machine and get home. Still, he quickly gets entangled in an interplanetary power struggle over natural resources, leaving all the future societies (Mars, Jupiter, and Earth) on the brink of war.

Everyone quickly realizes the dark and dangerous potential power of a time machine. Whole cultures could be erased with a single timeline shift. When Song is faced with the ultimate decision of destroying the very time machine that can get him home, what will he do? Help a foreign, cruel future world that has no love for him or race back through time?

There is a time when everyone must look outside themselves and decide if they can choose something greater. What does it take to dig down and decide to become a hero?