In this third installment of the Jenny Webster Series we face the existential question: if we know the future, maybe we can change mistakes before they happen. When Jenny meets Shamen, he projects light yet he has darkness, a portrait of good and evil. She'd like to believe there is a compelling dark force over which he has no control and is essentially a good person. But that kind of thinking is only valid if Shamen is human and not a hologram or robot or even worse, a figment of her imagination. To deal with him is to balance on a bridge over a booby-trapped highway of morals. Has the Solid State Conspiracy taken over Earth without a single shot, without our awareness? Will Earth survive?