The year is 1937, and Janine Harding is a naturalist studying wolves and living in primitive isolation in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Responding to what she believes is a summons from the wolf pack, she climbs to their lair and discovers a little boy under their protection. He doesn't speak, yet he communicates as clearly as she does.

Meanwhile, in the year 2649, on the planet Eridani II, Miranda Thymes is beside herself.  Her son, Jordy, a special child born mute but with amazing empathic abilities, is missing. When the company that was teleporting him to Earth determines that a time warp caused him to arrive 700 years too early, Miranda and her customer service representative set out to find him and discover love along the way.

But Miranda has a problem. Jordy and Janine have bonded and he doesn't want to go home.