A time of ambition, treachery and harmful secrets .

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end work and trained like a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternative timelines – and infiltrate them. Her USA can be waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on the mass size, and Rita will end up being their secret tool.

Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, being a politician within an commercial revolution US. She must speed up her world’s technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow these to hell. In the end, they’ve done it before. Each timeline also fights internal conspiracies, like a chilly war threatens to turn white sizzling. But which globe is the aggressor – and can Rita have to choose a side?

This new series is set in the same world as Charles Stross’ ‘Merchant Princes’ series.