The days of the Universe were numbered, and the human race found itself at the Edge of Time. Descendants of great eras, people do not know the fear of death, for death is rare and life can end only when the Earth itself dies. They spin in a carnival dance, turning the magic rings creating new worlds where everything is conditional, where there is no disease, hatred, suffering... but there is the pain of unrequited love. This is the story of the all-consuming passion of Jack Carnelian, dancer and performer of the Theater at the Edge of Time, and Mrs. Amelia Underwood , a resident of Victorian England during the Dawn era, who was not alien to the concepts of self-denial and Christian virtue.