Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (or possibly in a hospital in suburban Chicagoland; the data is unreliable), Rowan Speedwell was kidnapped at young age by time travelers, who dragged her around ’20’s Paris, ’30’s Hollywood, ancient Egypt, the 23rd Century Federation and Imperial Spain before dropping her into the latter half of the 20th Century, from which she has miraculously escaped into the first half of the 21st. She still misses the Federation, though. And she wonders why, after all her vast experience with time, she has so little of it.

What time she does have, she spends writing, reading, sewing, reading, making jewelry, reading, researching obscure topics, reading, shooting arrows (badly), and petting her cat. And reading.