The Hour I Stole From You

Every clock keeps two times: the one it tells, and the other, the true one-the hour when someone loved it.

Natalie Reis repairs clocks in a workshop barely two metres wide in Alfama, and she can hear what they hold: a scent, a laugh, a farewell that never came. Until a package with no return address delivers a silver watch that beats like a heart... and hurls her into Lisbon in 1755, just twenty-eight days before the great earthquake.

Waiting for her is Lucian Vareth: immortal, weary of waiting, with a house full of stopped clocks and a portrait of himself painted in 1690. He has secrets. He has spent centuries searching for the one woman capable of sewing time back together. And he knows what she has yet to discover: that every stranger's moment she mends will cost her a memory of him.

Caught between an inquisitor who collects farewells, a thread that demands what one loves most, and a countdown that never stops, Natalie will discover that her gift is born of love-and that love always comes at a price.

But the watch has more eras yet to visit, and perhaps the love of her life has not even been born.