The Halloween Chronicles

In Everglade Hollow, a town tucked away in the rain-drenched woods of northern Oregon, time moves differently-especially inside The Ravensport Compass.

Eli Thorne, the 24 old granddaughter of a mystical antique dealer, has just inherited the shop and the heavy burden of its secrets. She is the "living key" to a portal hidden in the back of the store, a gateway to realms she barely understands. Her quiet life of magical inventory and conversations with her snarky talking cat is disrupted when a massive, multi-faced antique clock is mysteriously left on her doorstep.

Enter Margort Vance, a 32-year-old, elite art recovery specialist. Driven, athletic, and fiercely logical, she treats "magic" as a fairy tale used to drive up the price of fakes. Hired by a high-profile client to recover a priceless, "lost" 16th-century horological masterpiece, her trail leads her straight to the isolated shop in the woods.
When the skeptic meets the enchantress, the sparks are immediate, but so is the danger. As the specialist tries to "rescue" the clock from what she thinks is a quirky small-town scam, she accidentally triggers the portal, forcing her to confront a reality that defies every law of physics she knows. Together, the two women must protect the clock from those who want to use its power to bridge the worlds, all while navigating the undeniable pull they feel toward one another.