Akalya is one of a hidden race of humanity called Harekaiian, who genetically have the ability to shift in space or in time, although not both at the same time. While living in Los Angeles in 2015, she is faced with the danger of a billionaire-financed secret scientific team which has captured several of her fellow Harekais, including her best friend, Gaye, with the hope of dissecting and experimenting on their cellular structures in order to uncover the source of their time and distance shifting abilities. Akalya begins an heroic journey to save her fellow Harekais, as well as to uncover the truth in the past of how the secret of her race was unveiled, a process that leads her to a new relationship back and forward in time. This book is a collection of the first five novellas in a set of ten, originally published individually. Even though each novella episode has its own storyline that can be read individually, the episodes do follow a larger story of Akalya’s quest and discovery. Through Akalya, later nicknamed Kallie, and another Harekai member who has become a physics professor, the author works at trying to scientifically justify the potential conflicts of the time traveling aspects, including adding possible rule limitations that cause some complicated time and space shift travels, but there still appear to be moments which might seem to cause conflict in the timeline continuum. However, sci-fi fantasy adherents will still probably enjoy the heroic and empathetic characters finding life in a time shifting universe. ( )