Julia Olsen, assistant to the Dean at St. Sunniva University, faces a double challenge when food goes missing from the biology department fridge and a famous physics cat becomes the center of a heated wager at the time-travel lab. Can she catch the sneaky thief and solve the mystery of the elusive historical cat? This prequel to Neve Maslakovic’s time-travel series is a lively and engaging jaunt into science, history, and academia, packed into a novelette of about 12,000 words.