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The Clockmaker's Key
Paperback
General Juvenile FictionScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2025
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A hidden key. A clockwork realm behind the world. A future self willing to break time to fix it.
Twelve-year-old Oliver Finch is still learning how to live in a house that feels unfinished after his grandfather Theo dies. Then Oliver finds something Theo never meant for the ordinary world, a warm brass key carved with a spiral and markings that do not belong to any lock he has ever seen.
The key opens a seam into the Clockwork Veil, a vast workshop where time is woven, guided, and repaired. Waiting inside is Tickory Tock, a winged pocket watch who served Theo for decades and knows exactly how dangerous curiosity can be.
But the Veil is failing. Threads snap. Islands flicker between impossible versions. And the force tearing at the weave is not a stranger. It is Chronovore, an older Oliver with a scar, a cruel certainty, and a Time Engine that turns seconds into weapons.
With fearless tinkerer Midge Puddlefoot and quiet Barnaby Barny Twitch (and his flock of clockwork birds), Oliver has one job: stop the fracture before it hooks into Finch Hollow and pulls his mother and his home into the Veil's broken rhythm.
The Clockmaker's Key is a fast, vivid middle-grade fantasy adventure about grief, courage, and the moment you decide whether you will repair what's broken, or become what breaks it.
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