A Trail Through Time characters

Also known as Max

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A St Mary's historian who has arrived in a version of her home where Leon Farrell is alive but she does not belong cleanly in the life remembered by the people around her. She must decide whether this second chance can be made real while temporal authorities treat her presence as a problem.

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Head of Technical at St Mary's and the Leon of the world in which Max now finds herself. Their reunion is genuine but complicated by the missing woman whose place Max appears to occupy and by the danger attached to Max's arrival.

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Director of St Mary's, accustomed to defending the institute from threats that conventional authorities cannot understand. Max's anomalous position forces him to weigh institutional survival against loyalty to one of his historians.

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An experienced historian and one of Max's closest colleagues at St Mary's. His practical field sense makes him a valuable ally when Max and Leon's flight begins to intersect with the institute.

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St Mary's senior security officer. Guthrie is responsible for protecting the institute even when the people approaching it include friends pursued by a force able to follow them through time.

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A resourceful member of Security whose loyalty to St Mary's is matched by a readiness to improvise. He remains useful when a temporal crisis reaches the grounds of the institute.

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The administrator at the centre of St Mary's daily life. Mrs Partridge's composure and command of information are especially important when events no longer follow an ordinary chronological order.

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A senior St Mary's scientist whose analysis supports field teams dealing with evidence and effects that cannot be explained outside the institute.

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The St Mary's doctor responsible for treating the physical consequences of historical assignments and the strain placed on staff by repeated temporal emergencies.

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A renegade traveller whose earlier attacks killed St Mary's personnel and made every unexplained temporal intervention suspect. At the opening he remains free and hostile, but Max has no certain knowledge of where or when he will act next.