Sophia Carter is one month from taking the bar when her boyfriend, Malcolm, sends a glass cat backward in time—and TQ Labs is already waiting. Owned by tech billionaire Daniel Mirac, the secretive laboratory uses an "oracle" to receive messages from a fixed future, allowing them to intercept independent inventors before they can cause a paradox. Soon, its agents arrive with lucrative job offers, movers already scheduled, and a gun in case Sophia and Malcolm mistake the offer for a choice.
Reduced to stocking the company break room while Malcolm revels in his cushy new role, Sophia becomes little more than an accessory in the male-dominated lab that's shaping the future. But when she decides to fight her way from overlooked assistant to an indispensable part of TQ Labs, a stolen glimpse of tomorrow reveals what her continued surrender will cost—not just for her, but for everyone.
The future cannot be changed. All will come to pass. To remain herself, Sophia must outmaneuver a destiny that has already accounted for every act of defiance—but is she fighting her way free, or following the path that will place her in Mirac’s hands?
