What if America had lost the Revolutionary War? Or there had never been one? What if Cardinal Richelieu had sold Canada to the Huguenots in 1627? It all happened once and then history was restored, more or less. Such tampering and ensuing repairs have left a mess. Things just can't be put back exactly as they were, causing historians to scratch their heads and ask, "What the hell?" Only a small group working to maintain the timeline knows what really happened the first time around. Now comes an explanation for these anomalies. This work, the first in a series, addresses three such instances:...

We live in blissful ignorance of the turmoil wrought by timeline tampering. The new past creates a new present and we never know it. That is, if one is there to contemplate the story. Those whose existence has been erased are less than dead - they just never were. Harry and Karen are part of a small group acutely aware of this travesty. Their task is to restore history, as best as possible, when others have disrupted the timeline. It weighs on them when this role makes them purveyors of mass extinction...and creation. They believe what they do is for the greater good, but there is no escaping...