The Waters of Time

In a fog-laced London where time and tide are one, a mapmaker and a clockwright must unlock a submerged legacy before the river consumes the city-and their future.
Clara Hart, a brilliant but reserved cartographer, has spent her life tracing the secret pulses of the Thames. Raised by a father who vanished chasing river myths, she trusts in maps more than magic. Edmund Vale, heir to a disgraced line of clockwrights, returns to London haunted by forgotten memories and the broken mechanisms of a machine meant to still the tides of time.
When the river begins to rise without reason-washing away days, hours, and memories-Clara and Edmund are drawn together by inherited secrets, an unfinished device, and a prophecy that points beneath the city's foundations.
Guided by waterlogged journals, lunar charts, and the whispered warnings of a hidden society known as the Keepers of the Tide, the two must brave submerged archives, ley-line surges, and the bitter rivalries of the past. What they discover could mend the wounds of time-or drown them in it.
A steampunk-infused historical fantasy that blends atmospheric world-building with emotional resonance, The Waters of Time explores legacy, invention, and love on the edge of unraveling chronology. At its heart is a question that neither compass nor clock can answer:
"Can you map the heart of a river that remembers everything but forgives nothing?"