Time traveling assassin Jeremiah Gale kills people in the past to change his present. On his last mission he tries to kill his seventeenth target but fails. Returning to his origin year, he finds the world changed. Instead of a government bureaucrat, a priest controls the time travel project hidden in the self-contained habitat of Station Lemaitre. Gale fears he has created a much worse future, but the station is more than Gale dreamed. Shadowy forces...