HER FUTURE… There’s a reason Maude Kincaid is one of the best Time Rogues, and it’s the same reason she’s now dead–or soon will be. Gut-shot and lying in a sub-orbital tram station reeking of brimstone, waiting for the atmospherics to give out, she’s exactly where she intended: She’s saved CORE, her friends, and her reality. And only a woman willing to bend the rules could do it.

…IS IN THE PAST The time travel was nothing. That’s been as natural as breathing since Maude became one of the 22nd century’s elite cadre of protectors against temporal rifts. Jumps to Dealey Plaza and the old South were nothing. Taking the bullet was a little harder. Maude’s only regret is about Gil. Gil, with whom she shared the 21st-century delights called Sonic burgers and blueberry Slushies. Gil, who’s half cowboy, half PhD, but all man. Gil, whom she abandoned with his memory erased because he was from another time, another reality, and because Time Rogues can’t afford to know love. Today, she can’t afford to forget it.