When Our Clock Stops
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Time is running out. Literally.
Elena has never told anyone she can see death countdowns hovering over people's shoulders - not even when her own began ticking after her twelfth birthday. For years, she's kept her head down, avoided eye contact, and lived like she wasn't watching the world die one second at a time.
Until she meets James - the boy with no countdown.
No timer. No explanation. Just a glitch in the system and a crooked smile that sees right through her.
Drawn together by impossible circumstances, James and Elena discover they're not alone. Others like them exist. And worse - they're being hunted.
The Timeless, a secretive and emotionless force, are taking people with the gift of sight. But when time stops around James and Elena, and they remain unfrozen, something unprecedented happens... they fight back.
Now, with Elena's timer slipping toward zero and the truth of her family's past unraveling, the two must risk everything - including each other - to uncover what the Timeless want, and why their connection might be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.
Romantic, suspenseful, and heartbreakingly human, When the Clock Stops is a story about fate, memory, and how far you'd go to save the ones you never got to love.
Some countdowns can't be outrun.
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