Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes
the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting
life, but she gets by — until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers
have ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the
company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to
travel in time.
Soon Ann is visiting a matriarchy in ancient
Crete, and then a woman mathematician at the Library of Alexandria. But
Transformations Incorporated remains shrouded in mystery, and when Ann
finally catches her breath, there are too many troubling questions still unanswered. Who are Transformations Incorporated, and what will they
use this technology to gain? What ill effects might going back in time
have on the present day? Is it really as harmless as TI says?
When a coworker turns up dead, Ann’s superiors warn her about a covert group called Core out to sabotage the company. Something just isn’t right,
but before she has time to investigate, Ann is sent to a castle in the
south of France, nearly a thousand years in the past. As the armies of
the Crusade arrive to lay siege, and intrigue grows among the viscount’s family, Ann will discover the startling truth — not just about the
company that sent her there, but also about her own past.