Have you ever wanted to push the “stop” button on your life, rewind it, and start over again at the place where things went wrong?  Would you actually be willing to make the changes…or be seduced into repeating your past mistakes? 

Peter Federson’s life went wrong when he flunked out of college because of poor algebra grades.     It all happened under this maroon sky, reflecting in the still lake on the campus of a major university in the Midwest.  Since then, Peter marries the wrong girl and divorces her, fails in low paying job after job, lives in a dilapidated trailer, looks older than his 58-years, hates cell phones and the internet, likes no one, and is scared of everything.  His life moves from panic to drudgery and back again.

Suddenly, without his permission, Peter is thrown back in time to 1971, and finds himself awakening under a rack of canoes next to the calm lake overlooking his former dormitory on the campus of Southern Illinois University-home of the SIU Salukis and the maroon and white.

Now Peter Federson is marooned in time… a Saluki Marooned.

But the quiet sky is deceptive, because Southern Illinois has an unusual history of epic natural events.

Such as the most violent tornado on record,  an inland hurricane, and the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the lower 48 states.  And added to this is a long history of man-made violence:  The Herrin massacre, Bloody Williamson, and rioting at SIU which closed down the school.