Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and his wife at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body. A New York Times bestseller.