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In the bustling Constantinople of 1150 AD, Judson Daniel Elliot, a tour guide for the Time Service, abandons his group of tourists to spend a stolen hour with a dazzling, time-defying paradox of seventeen springs, named Pulcheria. This is a serious crime! Upon his return, he discovers that a cunning tourist has independently dived into time. In a panic, Jud tries to locate the man, but he keeps making one bewildering blunder after another. His friends rush to mend the frayed temporal fabric, but the relentless Time Patrol is onto them. Jud could be plucked from the time stream at any moment, which means he would simply cease to exist. This is a gripping tale from a writer who has already made a significant mark in the field and was recently honored with the Nebula Award for A Time of Changes.