Cedric Thornwick leads a quiet life repairing clocks in the fog-shrouded city of Blackbridge-until a dying stranger stumbles into his workshop with a warning that changes everything. The mysterious brass cog hidden in an old timepiece isn't just unusual clockwork-it's the key to a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of power.
As bodies pile up and temporal anomalies ripple through the city, Cedric finds himself hunted by a shadowy cabal determined to activate the Eternal Dial, a device that could rewrite reality itself. With only a brilliant archivist named Rosalind and a handful of unlikely allies, he must navigate Blackbridge's steampunk underworld to uncover the truth about his father's hidden past and prevent a plot that would transform their democratic city into a clockwork dystopia.
But when the enemy can manipulate time itself, how do you fight back? And when the cost of resistance might be everything you hold dear, how do you choose between individual freedom and collective safety?
Core Concept: A clockmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret resistance against a temporal conspiracy, forcing him to choose between his quiet life and stopping a cabal that plans to use time-manipulation technology to create a perfectly ordered-but utterly controlled-society.
Setting: The industrial city of Blackbridge, shrouded in perpetual smog and ruled by clockwork precision, where democratic movements struggle against authoritarian forces armed with reality-bending temporal devices.
Stakes: The fate of free will itself, as the heroes must prevent the activation of the Eternal Dial before it can rewrite history and eliminate humanity's capacity for choice.
Themes: Individual agency vs. institutional control, the price of safety vs. freedom, and the power of ordinary people united by shared principles to resist extraordinary oppression.
Cedric Thornwick leads a quiet life repairing clocks in the fog-shrouded city of Blackbridge-until a dying stranger stumbles into his workshop with a warning that changes everything. The mysterious brass cog hidden in an old timepiece isn't just unusual clockwork-it's the key to a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of power.
As bodies pile up and temporal anomalies ripple through the city, Cedric finds himself hunted by a shadowy cabal determined to activate the Eternal Dial, a device that could rewrite reality itself. With only a brilliant archivist named Rosalind and a handful of unlikely allies, he must navigate Blackbridge's steampunk underworld to uncover the truth about his father's hidden past and prevent a plot that would transform their democratic city into a clockwork dystopia.
But when the enemy can manipulate time itself, how do you fight back? And when the cost of resistance might be everything you hold dear, how do you choose between individual freedom and collective safety?
Core Concept: A clockmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret resistance against a temporal conspiracy, forcing him to choose between his quiet life and stopping a cabal that plans to use time-manipulation technology to create a perfectly ordered-but utterly controlled-society.
Setting: The industrial city of Blackbridge, shrouded in perpetual smog and ruled by clockwork precision, where democratic movements struggle against authoritarian forces armed with reality-bending temporal devices.
Stakes: The fate of free will itself, as the heroes must prevent the activation of the Eternal Dial before it can rewrite history and eliminate humanity's capacity for choice.
Themes: Individual agency vs. institutional control, the price of safety vs. freedom, and the power of ordinary people united by shared principles to resist extraordinary oppression.
Clockwork Conspiracy
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Clockwork Conspiracy
232
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781968777005 |
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| Publisher: | Thomas Haase |
| Publication date: | 06/26/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 232 |
| File size: | 387 KB |