Dr. Sharon Earnst and her team of scientists are briefing a Senate Committee about something different that walks the surface of Earth. She says they are visitors who arrived here 972 million years ago during the Pre-Cambrian and have not left. Somehow they have become caught in a time loop. They possess a dangerous technology that could remove us from our planet. Their actions affect Earth's geology and biology, responsible for numerous extinctions. Their movements affect human history as our ancestors start to emerge. The visitors also keep emerging, but not all at once. She has launched an investigation to study and explain how this is happening. Can we stop it? Can we contain it? Of course it must be kept secret ...but for how long? Multiple points of view from different timelines help to answer these questions. Dr. Earnst is one of these. Is she sane? Is there something else she is hiding? The full story will develop through the pages of the Spirits Butte Tetralogy. *Emergence is the first book in the series. The print version contains 22 B&W illustrations; the eBook version contains 22 color illustrations.