In the year 2054, time travel isn’t a fantasy — it’s a job.

Kate Bartley is a site technician for J.E.S.A.S., a powerful organization that sends specialists into the past to repair broken time machines and recover stranded personnel. The rules are strict. The surveillance is constant. And emotional attachments are forbidden.

For years, Kate has followed every regulation.

Until the day she’s told that someone she cares about is gone.

What follows is a decades-spanning story of love restrained, loyalty tested, and the quiet, devastating cost of serving a system that claims it can fix time — but not everything.