Ever since Scharlette’s parents gave her a name no one can pronounce, she’s been stuck in a bit of a rut. She hates her job in airport security, making people take their belts off before they fly to exotic locations she can only dream about. She owns a small apartment with large repayments, drinks bargain bin red on a couch that swallows gym memberships, and misses her little sister – lost to an exploding sandwich press, ten years ago.
Scharlette fears she might live her whole life without doing anything or mattering to anyone. Still, it comes as quite a surprise when a handsome time traveller arrives from the future and tells her she is correct – that, according to his records, she doesn’t matter at all.
Scharlette doesn’t think this news is too wonderful, but as she soon learns – given she was to have no impact on the timeline whatsoever, she is free to blast off into outer space, and have amazing adventures with heedless abandon.