THE CLOCKMAKERS CURSE
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In a quiet coastal town where time seems to move strangely, 17-year-old Lyra Quinn discovers a broken pocket watch buried in her late grandmother's attic. The watch doesn't tick - but it pulses, faintly, like a heartbeat. When she winds it, time freezes... for everyone but her.
But the gift comes with a cost: every time she uses it, someone in the town forgets a piece of their past - including Lyra. Soon, she meets Elias, a mysterious boy who claims to be from a different time - 1884 - and who knows secrets about her family she's never heard. He warns her: the watch was forged by a cursed clockmaker whose inventions consume memories to power time.
The more Lyra tries to fix things, the more she risks forgetting who she is - and who Elias really is to her.
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