There are! It is the epic story of how the Time Agency revives Javert and Valjean and various Amis de la'ABC and recruits them into deep-cover temporal ops! And gives them the therapy and/or meds that many of them so desperately need! And there are ontological paradoxes and long-game ideological warfare and barricade warfare in the corridors of the subterranean timebase! And ivory-billed woodpeckers! And also kissing!