A book or maybe 3 mini-books which are not in the main sequence of 'Gift and Power series 1', but a little branch that sets things up for G+P 3. It starts earlier, fails to find a certain category of books in the right section of Foyles in 1970s London, and ends later. If you don't want to slog through series 1, this might serve as an alternative introduction to series 3. Must he die?A few years before the Great War breaks out, a Gifted steam engineer is just a little shocked to be told to go and find his future wife (she's just /there/) and become a missionary to her people.There's another secret that's been kept for thousands of years, and eventually, he discovers its much deeper than he first believed. Rabbit Stew 2 generations later,  Rose had had every expectation of being a very busy woman, not many months before. Now she fills some of the spare time she didn't expect, watching a man who just doesn't fit in 1975 London. He seems to fit almost as poorly as she does. Two years later, there are some strange signals picked up mid-atlantic. It's natural causes, right? Safely out at sea Two centuries later, Sarah Williams (Gift and Power Series 1) gets an unexpected call by a very  distant relative. That nuclear-tipped interceptor that Space-Guard launched into the space debris might be coming back to Earth. Is it time to make the other big secret known to the world? Release schedule... erratic while I work out something sane so this series doesn't end before series 1, not to mention fitting  it around the rest of life.Multiple chapters per week, anyway.Chapter length: mostly 5k-10k words. (Linux wc says there are 174k words in the 22 chapters).