Down in the Sea of Angels

In the year 2106, climate change has altered the world, transforming borders, cities and socioeconomic structures. Additionally, a cosmic event known as “the Bloom” has awakened psionic abilities in a small percentage of the population.

One such individual is Maida Sun, who possesses the ability of psychometry, a gift that allows her to touch an object and know its entire history. Newly assigned to the Golden Gate Cultural Recovery Project in the region once known as the San Francisco Bay Area, she must learn how to navigate the parameters of her abilities as well as the politics of the organization she works for. When a chance encounter with a political leader reveals a plan to contain psionic powers and the people who possess them – people like her – Maida must find a way to end those plans before they start.

Terrified, but left with few options, she continues to work for the Project. In the course of her duties she comes across a teacup and is psychically plunged into the lives of two of its previous owners – Nathan Zhao of 2006, a “bourgeois bohemian” working his corporate design job and longing for greater purpose; and Li Nuan of 1906, an indentured servant in a Chinatown brothel.

A strong psychic connection is made and Maida realizes she can use the conduit of the teacup to send a message back through time, giving her the chance to warn these individuals of the coming climate collapse, possibly change the world, and save her own life.