Kin is an ordinary family man with a stable job in IT, trying to maintain his marriage and improve his relationship with his teenage daughter. But he once had a different, much more exciting career - a former operator of the Temporal Deformation Bureau, Kin got stuck at the end of the twentieth century after a failed mission and never received rescue. But when his future became the past and the past became the present, the Bureau finally sends an evacuee - eighteen years late, and now Kin must return to the fiancée he does not remember. Torn between two worlds, he jeopardizes not only the Bureau but also the very course of history, but if his daughter's life is at stake, Kin is ready to break all the rules of time travel in the world. An emotionally rich science fiction novel about difficult moral choices and parental love in Mike Chen's debut, masterfully combining adventure and drama - for the first time in Russian!
