James is a time salvager. His job is to travel back in time and save artifacts and technology from the brink of destruction.
Time salvagers are required to adhere to a strict set of protocols. The main one of which is to never bring a living person from the past into the future. Dire consequences if anyone does such a thing.
James lives in a time of decay and depression. His forays into the past to rescue lost tech is helping to keep mankind safe if not exactly thriving.
Time travel takes a toll on the salvagers, both physically and mentally. James is one of the most experienced and valuable salvagers but he is suffering from exhaustion. He really needs to take some time off to rest and recuperate. But on his latest foray, he is smitten by an attractive and intelligent young woman and saves her from her doom and brings her back to his timeline.
This woman is a scientist and she was supposed to die in a terrible explosion. Her knowledge could be the key to saving Earth from a deadly environmental catastrophe.
But James has broken the first rule of time travel and has put himself and the scientist in the crosshairs not only of his own employer but of that of a ruthless and cruel corporation that will stop at nothing to get to him and to her.
Kind of a boring story. James rescues the woman and hides her in a tribe of outcasts living in the ruins of Boston. And he makes many trips into the past to gather the equipment she needs to conduct her experiments to solve the environmental crisis that has enveloped the world. None of that was really very interesting.
The last part of the story features a lot of battles and strife, most of which I skipped. I am not interested in the details of battles. I find that sort of thing to be the so boring.
So even though this book is the first in a new series, I probably will not bother to read the next in the series.
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