These quotes set the scene, establishing the Time Travel Program (TTP) and the grim job of its Retrieval Agent, Shatner Barnes.
“Shatner Barnes stood silently in the shadows near the edge of the porch, cloaked in the darkness that surrounded him. He wore a sleek, futuristic black jumpsuit that revealed only the pale skin of his hands and neck.”
“His mission was to retrieve the dying, to ‘pluck’ them from the moment of death and bring them to a future they never earned.”
“He was here to save a life. But as the father’s voice rang out again… Shatner felt the sharp, bitter taste of complicity.”
These passages highlight the moral core of the book: the abuse of time travel and Shatner’s growing disillusionment.
“The Time Travel Program was not a tool for preservation, but a loophole for control. A billionaire’s scheme to weaponize history itself.”
“No one wanted to dig too deeply into what had happened, for fear of making things worse or discovering they didn’t exist.”
These quotes focus on the profound, irreversible consequences of the time shifts and the novel’s final state.
“The world was no longer what it once had been. Only he and Sera remembered a version they had left behind.”
“All true knowledge of the world before the time shift was lost with Reed.”
“They had all come to terms with what was now their reality.”
“A dark, ethical premise exploiting time travel to ‘pluck’ women before death, that generates instant curiosity.”
“A high concept thriller that forces the reader to question the true cost of survival.”
