Tales of the Aether Book 2: Gears of the Echo

**Tales of the Aether Book 2: Gears of the Echo**

**🛑 Before reading Book 2, you must read *Tales of the Aether Book 1* to understand the foundation of the timeline.**

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**EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, THEY FIXED THE WORLD. NOW, THEIR CHILDREN MUST SAVE IT.**

Engineers **Irene Oxide** and **Flint Silverlockett** saved the city of Aethel from temporal collapse, built a thriving new life, and raised a family founded on logic, salvage, and fierce love. They believe the tyrant Lucifer Locke is permanently contained, the clocks run true, and the future is secure.

But the quiet is a lie.

Their children, twins **Tai (Titanium)** and **Aloy (Alloy)**, are eighteen and ready to define their own places in the rebuilt city. When a rogue burst of Chronium energy strikes the young adults, they are subtly fractured, inheriting a dangerous, unpredictable temporal power tied directly to the Engine.

Now, from the depths of his stasis cell, the imprisoned Regulator **Lucifer Locke** feels the pulse of that power. He sees the twins as the ultimate variables-the perfect blend of chaos and control-and he will stop at nothing to use them to complete the destruction their parents fought so hard to prevent.

**Tai, the reckless chaos factor, and Aloy, the quiet structural genius, must step into the echo of the past, master their unstable new powers, and defend the timeline.**

*The gears are turning, and the fault line is widening.*

**Ready to watch the next generation of engineers fight for their future?**