It’s hard to believe that the book that I started dreaming about in 2021 and has taken me on a sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating journey, is now launched into the wild!
In Turicum, where everything runs like clockwork, a baby with purple cat-like eyes is left at the train station’s newsstand…
Eleven-year-old Kyra works with her adopted papa in the Turicum train station’s newsstand, feeling like an outsider as her eyes are like nobody else’s. When she discovers a hidden cryptic note with a broken pocket watch left by her mother, Kyra is determined to find her. Against the advice of her best friend, she enlists the help of the curmudgeonly clockmaker to fix the watch. Mysterious time slips soon lead her to discover the truth about her unique identity.
As the pieces of her history click into place like the gears in her watch, Kyra’s growing impatience to change her fate unintentionally sets off a series of alarming events. Children disappear and time starts to fracture. Will her quest to restore temporal balance to the city deprive her of her one chance to feel as though she belongs?
This first book in my series (all books will be stand-alone, but set in the same steampunk world of Turcium’s train station), is available wherever books are sold. If you can, please support an indie bookstore and order it from them, or from Bookshop.org which supports indie bookstores. It’s available in paperback and as an e-book.
And, if you like it, please consider leaving a review wherever you post reviews, or tell a friend! Or request that your library order it!