Janet Lapinski has always known she was adopted as an infant from the far side of the world, until that story is retold by a genetic test and a mysterious visit by a time-traveler. Soon she and her fellow Constantine and Associates employees find themselves journeying to lands as distant as 17th-century Malaysia and 22nd-century South Carolina, caught up in a search for truth and family, pursued by security agents and with one man's complicated existence tying time into knots and fairy tales as Janet fights to keep both their destinies intact.