The year is 1855. A disgraced heir stands in the dirt while his fiancée reads his failures aloud to a crowd. He doesn't flinch. He doesn't beg. He just… smiles. That's when they should have been afraid. Isaiah Cole isn't the broken man they think he is. He's a scientist from 2026 — and he knows exactly what's buried under that "worthless" land, exactly which wars are coming, and exactly how a nobody becomes the most powerful man in the world. The only question is how far he's willing to go.