The Clockmaker's Daughter

In the suffocating smog of 1887 London, Eleanor Whitmore spends her days surrounded by the rhythmic, indifferent ticking of brass gears and mainsprings. She is an anomaly: a female apprentice in a world of men, possessing a mind that sees the mechanics of time where others see only destiny. But Eleanor’s latest creation—a silver pocket watch of impossible precision—is not merely a timepiece. It is a vessel. Unknown to her, the metal is fused with a drop of blood that has yet to be spilled, a biological anchor tethering her to a man who exists two centuries out of reach. Dr. Alistair Crane lives in the sterile, hollow neon of 2087, a world decaying under the weight of its own technological hubris. He is obsessed, a man haunted by the ghost of a woman he has failed to save twice before. Each time he reaches into the past to pluck Eleanor from her impending fate, the timeline recoils, weaving her death into the very fabric of history. Now, with the final loop unraveling, Alistair must re