Ruthford.
Jake Phillips: Professional time counselor. June’s
husband.
Jay Ableman: Dan and Gil’s newborn son. Deleena’s
older brother.
Jessica Hamilton: Andrew’s invalid sister. Former
ballerina. Injured severely in a car accident.
Jill Kingston: Wade’s wife. Kenny’s mother.
Julian Blintson: Crystal’s high school boyfriend.
June Phillips: Professional time counselor. Jake’s wife.
Karl Fagan: Angelina’s manager.
Katie Warner: Nurse. Time counseled as a child. Takes
care of victims of time crimes.
Kenny Kingston: Wade and Jill’s five-year-old son.
Kyle Carson: Professional time counselor. Marc and
Ryan’s friend.
Laura Nelson: TEMCO professor. Third-in-command
at TEMCO. Dan and Peter’s friend since college.
Gil’s best friend. Peter’s fiancée. Escaped being
held captive by Drake.
Lawrence Ember: Medical doctor. Time counseled as a
child. Takes care of victims of time crimes.
Liz Anderson: Ecologist. One of Andrew’s dates.
Marc Kerry: Professional time counselor. Interested in
Crystal. Zeke, Ryan, and Kyle’s friend.
Maria Ortega: Gerald’s girlfriend.
Marjorie Vaster: The First Lady’s niece. One of
Andrew’s dates.
Nathan Ableman: Sam’s brother. Policeman. Zara’s
husband.
Nicki Cunning: Suicidal fourteen-year-old artist.
Phoebe and Drake’s former counseling subject.
Nicole as a teenager.
Nicole Cunning: Nicki Cunning as an adult. Famous
artist. Zeke’s girlfriend. Brandon’s former
girlfriend.
Paul Freemar: President of the United States. Andrew’s
friend. Carol Lynn’s husband. Marjorie’s uncle.
Peter Matthews: Director of TEMCO operations.
Second-in-command. Dan’s boyhood friend.
Laura’s fiancé. Escaped being held captive by
Drake.
Phoebe Reynolds: Senior cadet. Drake’s former field
partner. Nicki’s counselor. Alex’s girlfriend.
Attacked and held captive by Drake. Rescued
by Alex.
Poppa (The Facilitator): Dan forty-five years in the
future. Twinkles’s husband. Father of Jay and
Deleena. Head of NewGen.
Rick Olsen: Serial killer who tried to kill Sue.
Deceased.
Robyn Masters: Zeke’s sister. Murdered by her father.
Russ Elton: Alex’s nearest neighbor. A rancher with a
petting zoo.
Ryan Adams: Professional time counselor. Marc and
Kyle’s friend.
Sam Ableman: Pastor of Charlesberg Community
Church. Dan’s stepfather. Father of Angelina
and Alex. Sue’s husband. Nathan’s brother.
Lives in Colorado.
Sandra Jones: White House staffer working for
Andrew. One of Andrew’s potential dates.
Scott Ruthford: Andrew Hamilton’s head agent.
Assigned to find Drake and keep TEMCO
employees safe.
Sue Ableman: Mother of Dan, Angelina, and Alex.
Sam’s wife. Lives in Colorado.
Twinkles: Gil forty-five years into the future. Mother of
Jay and Deleena. Poppa’s wife.
Thomas Moosly: TEMCO professor. Member of the
field assignment review board.
Wade Kingston: TEMCO professor. Jill’s husband.
Kenny’s father. Marc’s friend. Almost died at Drake’s hands.
Zara Ableman: Sam’s sister-in-law. Nathan’s wife.
Zeke Masters: TEMCO computer tech and chief
analyst. Counseled Andrew Hamilton. Nicole’s
boyfriend. Robyn’s brother. Marc, Andrew, and Crystal’s friend.
GLOSSARY OF RELATIONSHIPS
Old Relationships:
Bill Winston—Sue Winston (Ableman):
Status: No longer married. Bill was Sue’s first
husband. Bill died of cancer.
Children: Dan Winston (Ableman)
Current Relationships:
Pastor Sam Ableman—Sue Winston Ableman:
Status: Married. Sam is Sue’s second husband.
Sam adopted Sue’s son, Dan.
Children: Dan Winston Ableman, Angelina
Ableman, and Alex Ableman
Dr. Dan Winston Ableman—Gillyflower Montgomery Ableman:
Status: Married. In the future they will be known
as Poppa and Twinkles.
Children: Jay Ableman (newborn)
Future Children: Deleena and William
Alex Ableman—Phoebe Reynolds:
Status: Dating.
Director Peter Matthews—Dr. Laura Nelson:
Status: Newly engaged.
Zeke Masters—Nicole Cunning:
Status: Dating.
GLOSSARY OF TEMCO EMPLOYEES
Leaders of TEMCO:
Dr. Dan Ableman—First-in-command.
Founder of TEMCO.
Director Peter Matthews—Second-in-command
Runs the lab.
Dr. Laura Nelson—Third-in-command
Lab Technicians:
Crystal Stuart
Zeke Masters—Counseled Andrew Hamilton.
Professors:
Dr. Dan Ableman
Dr. Laura Nelson
Dr. Thomas Moosly
Dr. Wade Kingston
Professional Time Counselors:
Dr. Dan Ableman—Gil’s field partner.
Gillyflower Ableman—Dan’s field partner.
Counseled Dan.
Jake Phillips—June’s field partner.
June Phillips—Jake’s field partner.
Kyle Carson
Marc Kerry—Counseled Zeke Masters.
Ryan Adams
Sally Voynickson
Tamara Brewster
Ted Jenkinson
Tim Simpkins
GLOSSARY OF LOCATIONS
Archives:
The third floor of Hawking Hall. It contains paper
copies of TEMCO case files.
Charlesberg, Colorado:
The hometown of Sam and Sue Ableman.
Charles Shipley Medical Center:
A new hospital located in Washington D.C.
Creekdale, Colorado:
A small town located in the mountains above
Charlesberg, Colorado. It’s near Alex Ableman’s
cabin.
File Room:
A small room in the TEMCO lab where files are
stored before transferal to the archives.
Hawking Hall:
A three-story building on the NSU campus that
houses TEMCO’s headquarters. It was set on fire
by Drake.
Lake House:
Andrew Hamilton’s home before he became the
Vice President. It’s located outside of Washington
D.C. Andrew jogs the grounds every morning.
National Science University (NSU):
A government established university staffed by
the country’s finest minds.
Number One Observatory Circle:
The official residence of the Vice President of the
United States. Located at the United States Naval
Observatory in Washington D.C. Andrew
Hamilton’s home as long as he is in office.
Student Union:
A building on the NSU campus that houses
restaurants and a supercomputer.
TEMCO Headquarters:
The lab, staff offices, and classrooms utilized by
the TEMCO st
aff. It is located on the second floor
of Hawking Hall.
TEMCO Lab:
A facility in Hawking Hall that houses the GAP
computer and Staging Platform.
TEMCO Temporary Headquarters:
A classroom in the basement of Student Union. It’s
the location of current TEMCO operations due to
the fire Drake set in Hawking Hall.
Washington D.C.:
The host city of NSU and TEMCO.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Alpha-Blue:
The clearance level needed to be privy to
TEMCO’s secret operations.
Cataclysmic Failure:
A situation initiated when a manipulated
timewave is destabilized. The ensuing phenomena
is called a Time Tsunami.
Class-One Alpha-Blue:
The level of license a cadet must earn to be placed
on TEMCO’s staff.
Case Subject:
A person chosen to receive time counseling
through TEMCO. Professional time surfers counsel
death-row inmates. Student cadets usually handle
suicide interventions.
Code of Conduct 5th Edition:
A manual of procedural rules originally given to
Dan Ableman by Poppa. The TEMCO staff and
students all agree to follow it. As new challenges
are faced, the manual is updated and revised.
D-day (Disaster Day):
In general, the day in which a case subject’s
tipping point occurs. In particular, the day Dan
Ableman almost stabbed Rick Olsen (see Time
Tsunami).
Facilitator:
Poppa’s official job title as relating to current
TEMCO operations.
Field Exam:
An exam in which a cadet is sent back through
time to counsel a case subject.
Field Partner:
Under new regulations put into place after Gil
Ableman’s field exam, all professional time surfers
and TEMCO cadets are teamed with a field
partner when traveling through GAP.
Five Immutable Laws (Excerpt from Code of Conduct 5th Edition):
The fundamental, irrefutable laws given by Poppa
that govern all TEMCO’s procedures.
1. A case subject’s past must be thoroughly
researched.
2. A case subject must undergo extensive
interviews before being selected.
3. A case subject’s tipping point toward evil must be determined.
4. A time counselor must never reveal his or her last name or personal history.
5. A time counselor must never be blinded by
conceit or supposition.
GAP Search:
An exhaustive inquiry into a case subject’s life that
exposes hidden motives and secret events.
Game Cartridge:
A device mailed to a case subject that is
camouflaged as a PlayFest game. When utilized, it
connects to the Staging Platform and establishes
contact with the TEMCO lab.
GAP (Grappling And Positioning Computer):
Dan Ableman’s invention that allows timewaves
to be harnessed and “surfed” by counselors.
NewGen Crew:
Time counselors from the future who are under
Poppa’s command.
Orals:
A vigorous testing procedure that precedes a
senior cadet’s field exam.
Professional Time Counselor (Time Surfer):
A time traveler who counsels troubled individuals
before they embark on a life of crime.
Scan Emitter:
A new invention that makes time travelers visible
to the local populace during an assignment.
Senior Cadet:
A fourth-year TEMCO student who is preparing to
take the field exam.
Staging Platform:
The gateway located in the TEMCO lab that opens
time portals.
Temporal Black Hole:
A mysterious, sporadic phenomenon that makes it
impossible to tabulate probability results or
conduct GAP searches.
Temporal Counseling Program (TEMCO):
A program established by Dan Ableman in which
cadets are trained to time travel for the purpose of
dissuading criminals from a life of crime.
Time Crime:
A crime involving a member of the TEMCO staff
that occurs during a time surf.
Time Portal:
A timewave fissure through which a surfer can
travel. Portals may be established through the use
of a game cartridge or a futuristic Wave Trapper
borrowed from Poppa.
Time Tsunami:
A phenomenon set in motion when a timewave is
destabilized by a Cataclysmic Failure. The
timewave splits in half, two separate timelines are
created, and the fabric of time unravels.
Timewave (GAP wave):
An invisible wave sailing through the air that is
harnessed by GAP for time-travel purposes.
Time Surf:
The slang term for a professional counseling
assignment or a senior cadet’s field exam.
Tipping Point:
The exact moment in which a felon’s future is first
tipped toward evil.
Trapper Treatise:
An agreement drawn up between Poppa and Dan
outlining how a borrowed Wave Trapper is
allowed to be used.
Wave Trapper:
A small portable device that allows time surfers to
harness timewaves without the help of the
TEMCO lab. It will eventually be invented by Dan,
but his current prototype is flawed. In the future,
Wave Trappers will be used extensively by Poppa
and his NewGen Crew.
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