Clockwork Heart
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Last published Sun, Dec 6, 2015
"She was gone, along with everyone else in my life..."
Josephine Abbott is devastated when her grandmother passes away. What seems to be the only person in the world that had understood her had left her, just like everyone else she loved had done. With her mother going from man to man and her brother taking off without warning, she had no one left. However, her grandmother did leave her one thing - an old, mysterious watch that will change her life forever. One minute she was standing in her boring bedroom, the next Josephine finds herself in England 1846. Her world is thrown into chaos and excitement as she tries to solve a mystery no one wants her to uncover. To complicate her life further, Josephine finds herself meeting with the handsome Eric Carter, a boy whom is she fighting the urge to love because she doesn't want him to disappear...
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