The Clockwork Conspiracy

Five guardians went into Chronos Station. Two never arrived. Three arrived and never left. Meredith Trevelyn crosses alone into a dimension where clocks run backward and a message can return three days before it was sent. Somewhere in the station, her colleagues are trapped inside loops of time. One of them has lived the same Wednesday two hundred times. The automatons who hold them are awake. For eleven years they wrote letters asking to be heard, and for eleven years they were ignored. Now they have made themselves loud, and the fractured dimension is coming apart around everyone inside it. Every guardian before her arrived shouting spells. Meredith arrives with a question. Asking it will cost her, because the clockwork mind waiting at the Master Clock knows exactly what he has done, and he refuses to call it anything else. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and This Is How You Lose the Time War, a quiet, luminous novel of machine minds, time, and what it means to be seen. Quiet can be enforced. Peace has to be built. Step through the door and begin the mission everyone else got wrong.