City of Sandglass Volume 3: The Watchmaker's Reckoning PREORDER
City of Sandglass Volume 3: The Watchmaker's Reckoning PREORDER
"To go back is not the same as to undo. The wound existed. The choice to close it is its own separate courage."
In the third volume of the City of Sandglass series, Bella and her husband Brent come into possession of an extraordinary object — one that has passed through generations of secret keepers and carries a power so immense that even those who once held it chose never to use it fully. Set against a world where time is currency, power, and law, The Watchmaker's Reckoning is a story about the things we carry for the people we love, and the moment we must decide whether carrying them is the same as being ready to act.
At its heart is a choice that cannot be made lightly — the difference between grief that asks to be eased and love that asks nothing in return. While Bella wrestles with that personal reckoning, a shadow is gathering in the Cities of Sandglass: a force with dangerous methods and grievances that are not entirely wrong. Somewhere between those two truths, Bella must find a way forward.
New alliances form in quiet rooms. Old wounds begin to close. And a legacy passed from keeper to keeper across generations is approaching the moment when it must be entrusted to hands that do not yet know what they will be asked to hold.
The Watchmaker's Reckoning is for readers who believe the most profound fantasy is not the one with the most spectacular magic — but the one that uses its magic to illuminate something true about being human.
"Time can be counted. It can be spent, stolen, and saved. But it cannot be held — not forever. And some gifts, once accepted, change everything."
City of Sandglass Volume 3: The Watchmaker's Reckoning