In the year 2083, the United States of America is a very different place. FBI agent Jason Xia (pronounced "Shaw") is sent to investigate a terrorist threat. What he finds instead is the most famous missing person in American history, Callie Cook, a beautiful, young senator whose unexplained disappearance fifty years before threw a presidential election into turmoil. With Xia's help, Cook will have to navigate through a suddenly bizarre world to solve a half-century old mystery—the mystery of who she really is.Steven Mohan, Jr. has published scores of short stories in markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short fiction has won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.