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| Just like anybody else,
Bobbie gets up every morning and slogs off to work. Only,
Bobbie doesn't go to an office - she goes to Saturday, June 1st, 1996. Bobbie
is a momentary engineer, a worker from the future capable
of invisibly altering the events of any life. It is her duty to perfect
her appointed twenty-four hours, one event, one place, one person, one moment,
one assignment at a time. In cooperation with coworkers stationed
in pivotal days throughout history, she methodically manufactures a perfect
future for the folks back home. Bobbie likes her job well enough. She can't imagine doing anything else. In fact, she can't imagine anyone doing anything else. And she does her job well enough. That is, until she's assigned to Davis's first date with a woman named Raeanne. Now, Bobbie has a requisition to fill. She has to help Davis seduce Raeanne. The only problem is - Bobbie's fallen in love with Davis. Worse yet, she already knows the fate that will inescapably unfold when she succeeds in her assignment: an untimely death for Davis. Perhaps this mission is best for her bosses, for the coworkers waiting on her, for the project of a perfect future - but Bobbie can imagine nothing worse. She has stalled for almost two hundred attempts, intentionally foiling her own mission. Now, time is up. An ultimatum comes down from above. Another failure will mean reassignment to the Dark Ages, exile from her timeline, or worse. Bobbie is trapped between the only life she knows and the first thing that has ever seemed truly, naturally perfect. Can she bring herself to guide the hand of the man she loves as he seduces another woman, as he shapes his own doom? |
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