Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise make this an unforgettable debut. His choices are often selfish but entirely understandable he is human, with good intentions and profound flaws. Chen’s concept is unique, and Kin’s agony is deeply moving. He misses his daughter, and when Miranda’s life is threatened, Kin will risk everything––including his own life, the future, and maybe even time itself––to save her. Forced to return to 2142, Kin quickly finds himself at odds with his old friend, the TCB, and his life in the future. But Kin can’t hide forever, and eventually, the future catches up with him in the form of a best friend he barely remembers. He has committed to his life his wife, Heather and his teenage daughter, Miranda. While visiting the mid-’90s, he was trapped in time by a bullet from one of his targets 18 years later, Kin has broken protocol and settled down in the past.

Kin is a Temporal Corruption Bureau agent from 2142, tasked with preventing temporal anomalies. Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise.In this heartfelt and thrilling debut, Chen revitalizes the trope of the absent and unavailable father by placing Kin Stewart in an impossible situation: despite living on the same California coast as his daughter, he is separated from her by a century. “Heartfelt and thrilling… Chen’s concept is unique, and agony is deeply moving.

With his daughter’s very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her-even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process. Torn between two lives, Kin’s desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. MPLX distributions to MPC was roughly 500 million this quarter and an annualized rate of over 2 billion. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. This quarter, it generated adjusted EBITDA of 1.5 billion, which is up 9 year over year. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives-eighteen years too late. Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter.īut his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future.

He’ll go anywhere and any when to save his daughter One of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2019 One of The Nerd Daily’s Best Debut Novels of 2019įeatured in The Millions “A Year in Reading” One of Book Riot’s Best Books of 2019 So Far One of BookBub’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: BrotherhoodĪ Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalist

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