The book starts in the near future with the heroine being arrested for a fraud on a massive global scale. during the interrogation, her story unfolds and the story is her revealing her life story and ability. she had always had an interest in gambling but at school she started to get headaches and found that after the headaches she knew what was going to happen. she used this ability to become the richest person in the world and then she started to do good for others. among other things for good she sets up a trust to fund up and coming inventors who couldn't get funding from other sources. one of these inventors had an idea for a sort of time machine, but it would cost a fortune to build. they built it and the time machine worked but it had unfortunate consequences it gave the heroine terminal cancer due to her being the pilot and genie-pig using it. the heroine died before she could be brought to trial and so escaped justice. but as always there was a twist at the end, especially when you mess with time.