Eleven stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances.- Roak is plowing his fields when he receives The Call.- Harry Hunter is making an ordinary freight run when his ship's computer breaks down.- Steph Jurdan is living out his life in obscurity when a journalist finally tracks him down.- Cheryl Hemming and Ann Furlan are on vacation when they make a wrong turn.- Craig Vanson discovers the future is both familiar and unrecognizable.- Senior Guild Pilot Jane Henderson, recuperating from a routine run, wakes up somewhere else.- Billy and Red try to figure out what use to make of a discarded time machine.- Sha'nel makes a futile offering to the gods on the very eve of war.- Fleet Commander Pitjara trips a mousetrap with his fleet.- Junior Guild Pilot Mulga must enforce the Guild's Penalty Clause, for the very first time.>Adamant and other stories contains the novella Adamant, the novelette On Purpose, a flash-fiction serial in ten parts, six other science fiction short stories, and two fantasy short stories. This is the author's first published fiction.