When the Clock Stops

Ashlin Laurel was only 14 when she woke up to the earth shaking. Trying to get out, she is taken away on a ship to be sold to China. After meeting Conner, a boy from Seattle, she works out a plan to get out with him. Years of being bought and sold throughout Europe and China, she ends up with a crazy old black marketeer, learning his trade and life. For once, things seem fine.

Ten years later, Ash, part cyborg, comes back to her old marketeer to pick up something for a big project of hers and meets his new apprentice, a girl named Caprese and ends up bumping into Conner. Ash sees something in the apprentice and ends up taking her under her wing. But Ash is soon to discover that there is more to this girl than she thought.

Working together, Ash and Caprese will find strange things happening to them along the way to find Caprese's family. And Conner and Ash's love life starts spiraling out of control when a strange but beautiful man comes into her life claiming he has information. What will happen to all of them if this falls apart.