"Three individuals, intrinsically linked through time and a jade teacup, battle their personal demons alongside enslavement, exploitation, and environmental collapse. In 2106, Maida Sun possesses the ability to see the entire history of any object he touches. When she starts a job with a culture recovery project in San Franscisco with other psions like her, she discovers a teacup that connects her with Li Nuan, a sex-trafficed girl in a 1906 Chinatown brothel, and with Nathan, a tech-designer and hedonist of 2006. A chance encounter with a prominent political leader reveals to Maida his plan to contain everyone with psionic abilities, eliminate their personal autonomy, and use their skills for his own gain. Maida is left with no choice but to join a fight she doesn't feel prepared for, with flashes of the past, glimpses of the future and a band of fellow psions as her only tools. She must find a way to stop this agenda before it takes hold and destroys life as she knows it. Can the past give Maida the key to saving her future?" -- Back cover