The Clockmaker's Daughter
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Last published Fri, Aug 15, 2025
> Some clocks don't just tell time-they take you through it.
Seventeen-year-old Calla Wynne never believed in destiny. She spent her life fixing broken things in her grandfather's clock shop-until she discovers an ancient pocket watch engraved with her name and a date from the 1800s.
When she winds it, Calla is thrown over a hundred years into the past-and right into the path of Elias Thorne, a brilliant inventor on the run for a crime he didn't commit.
Trapped in a world of corsets, candlelight, and conspiracy, Calla must uncover the truth behind the timepiece, outrun those who want to control it, and make an impossible choice: return home... or stay and risk everything for a boy out of time.
Love may be timeless. But time doesn't wait for anyone.
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