When time travelers fail test after test to significantly alter the past most financial backers abandon the Global Research Consortium leaving veteran traveler Marta Hamilton to administer a vastly scaled-down project. She must protect the past from a greedy future fend off political meddling and foil a murder plot originating in a parallel universe. She presides over a conspiracy to hide the truth of her best friends death while coping with a confusing and discomforting romantic entanglement in