What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

ETA: FOUND! (I don't know how to move this thread out of "Unsolved", though. Can anyone help with that?)

I decided, "To heck with it! I'll move stuff around in the garage until I can set up a bookshelf or two and unpack at least a few books!" I found the book I was trying to remember! It was, for the curious, "Mainline" by Deborah Christian. Thanks for anyone who looked at my description, and I'll try to help other people find their book titles in the future.

Original query follows:

We've moved to a smaller house and haven't cleared enough space to set up most of my books and bookcases, so of course I am getting a yen to re-read all these books and can't hope to find them in one of dozens of boxes. There's a book that I don't believe is particularly well-known that I'd love to get from the library but I can't remember the title or author.

Here's what I DO remember:
- It's science fiction
- It takes place in a fairly futuristic setting.
- There is a female protagonist
- The protagonist is probably a sort of mercenary/bounty hunter/futuristic private investigator of some kind.
- She has a special ability, that she can see all the different possible outcomes of nearly every decision she could make, major and minor, and she can grab onto a different thread into the future to force the outcome she would prefer.
- She has a name for this skill that she has, and I'm pretty sure it's also the title of the book.
- Embarrassingly, I can't remember a lot of the actual plot though I do remember enjoying the book when I read it, but I think a major part of the middle part of the plot took place at some sort of underwater city (or maybe just on an island in the middle of a very wide ocean?)
- There is another major female character who becomes very important to the heroine, but I'm pretty sure that, in order to keep them both safe, the heroine ends up having to put them in a future where her friend doesn't know who she is anymore. I know that does happen in the book, but I can't remember if it ends up that way or if it becomes possible for her to fix it before the end of the book.
- I'm almost certain that the book has a one-word title
- I'm 80% sure that it was written by a woman

I know this is very little to go on, but if it sounds familiar to any of you, I'd be very thankful.

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Thanks! Moved.

Theres a similar book called The Consequence Girl by Alastair Chisholm

Great! Glad you found your book, Kathy. I marked your request as Solved by clicking the small "edit" link after the topic header. This only works on the "Desktop version" of the website.

Mainline: A Science Fiction Thriller (book 1) of the Mainline series by Deborah Teramis Christian