Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his future and did not approve. After that incident, and having once met his future self, the inspector considered himself as knowledgeable as he ever wanted to be on time travel. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future and on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat. He would also find himself marooned in the past, where he would have to recover his time engine - his only way to get back home - from five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen.