Timeline is a book based in 1999. It begins with an old delusional man who is found out in a desert with a set of blueprints. This man worked for a company called ITC, shortly after he is brought into the hospital he dies in a way never seen before. Oddly enough, the blueprints are a perfect set for a archaeological dig in France of a old castle sponsored by ITC that is only halfway complete. When the professor goes back to ITC to find out why and how they got such a perfect set of blueprints, he is shown their new technology. It is a Quantum machine that allows people to go into different multiverses, or they could go to almost any time they want. The professor gets stuck back in France in 1367 and the president of ITC brings back the students from the dig to go back and get him. The students were chosen because of their familiarity with the time and location. They go back but are attacked as soon as they go back and a grenade that wasn't supposed to go back is made live and accidentally home. It blows up and damages the equipment so they are stuck, the students have to survive and fight their way around to find the Professor and get everyone back. They are fully immersed in a huge battle and run into someone who decided to stay back with brain damage. Eventually they work their way back, leaving one in the process and take down the greedy president and send him back in time to when the plague was ravaging Europe, without a way back, for him to learn what he was doing to others.