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When watchmaker Elias Thorne repairs a peculiar pocket watch, time stops—then breaks. Pulled from his quiet workshop into Aevum, a vast clockwork city that governs the rhythm of time itself, Elias discovers a world built on perfection and slowly dying because of it. Its gears no longer breathe. Its harmonies no longer bend. And its creator, the Chronomaster Vorran, believes flawlessness is the only path to survival. But Elias carries something the city has lost: an understanding that imperfection is not failure—it is adaptation.

Isabelle des Zephyrs has always been underestimated throughout her life, but after discovering the well of hidden magic within her, unveiling a centuries-long conspiracy, and stopping a war between rival nations, she has gained a newfound respect amongst the cutthroat court. All that is quickly taken away when Isabelle is unfairly convicted of breaking the treaty she helped write and has her political rank and status taken away. Now bereft, she nevertheless finds herself drawn into mystery when her faithful musketeer Jean-Claude uncovers a series of gruesome murders.

If Jane Austen wrote sci-fi, she might have envisioned great airships and pneumatically powered carriages. She might have penned a tale about a romance between a Scottish lad and the niece of the Duke of Wellington, both being gifted in the mechanical arts and brought together by a great threat to their queen and her empire.