"Kal judged they had walked for perhaps twenty minutes when Atilius stopped. Kal not paying a great deal of attention to his companion, walked right into the other man's back.
"This is no time for sleep walking, Kal," Atilius hissed in annoyance. "So why don't you wake up from your nap, unless you intended to try to walk up my back.""
Kal Hudson, a Wall-street economist, finds himself in Massalia Gaul.The year is 108 AD and he has no memory of how he got there. He begins to build a business empire and learns along the way the meaning of friendship. Finally, stalked by an assassin, and with Aliens intervening in his life, Kal must choose between friendship and his own desires.