The Unwinding Hour
The Unwinding Hour
The Girl Who Stole Tomorrow
About the Book
In the high-tech, soot-stained city of Aethegard, time is the ultimate currency. While the elite of the High District sip "liquid years" from crystal flutes to maintain their youth, the poor of the Sinks are taxed of their very lives, aging decades in a single day to fuel the city's Great Engine. Elara is a thief who doesn't care for gold. She steals for her sister, Mira, who is dying of a forced old age at only twenty years old. But during a desperate heist to save her sister’s life, Elara discovers something far more dangerous than the essence she seeks: the Ouroboros—a sentient, tarnished brass pocket watch with the power to fracture time itself. The watch offers Elara a way to outrun the law and rewrite her mistakes, but its power comes with a terrifying cost. Every moment stolen from the natural flow releases a "Temporal Shadow"—a monstrous paradox that hunts the source of the disturbance. As the city's ruthless leader, Julian Thorne, prepares a "city-wide harvest" to strip five years from every resident, Elara must join forces with a band of revolutionaries to stop the Great Engine before reality itself is unmade. Caught between a parasite of time and a tyrant who would be a god, Elara must decide how much of her own future she is willing to sacrifice to ensure the world has a tomorrow.
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