Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
Dr. Aline Knorr, a phenomenal neuroscientist, makes a discovery that could transform our understanding of the mind. Together with her assistant Esther, Knorr accidentally stumbles upon the ability to access the superconscious, a higher plane where all minds are connected across time. This revelation not only opens the door to communicating with past versions of oneself, but also to altering one's decisions and thereby changing the course of the present.
SofĂa lives a sad life, marked by the tragedy of unfulfilled dreams. While she experiences dreams in which her most intimate desires are manifested, she wonders if what she dreams is a way of contacting parallel universes in which she has been able to fulfill her deepest desires. The protagonist's questions have to do with happiness. Is happiness what you live, what you long for, or does it simply have to do with the way you face your own reality?
Abby Wright is a reporter for the local news station KRT whose husband Ellis disappeared a week ago. She's good friends with an engineer from the station named Cole and has dinner with him. Later they go out on a walk on a woods trail in a park where strange alterations in reality start taking place.