The Clockbound Heart: A Time-Travel Romance of a Haunted Book, Victorian Danger and a Love Across Centuries
ELIZABETH ORANGE
Jul 2026 · ELIZABETH ORANGE
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Clara has built her academic life around dead authors, lost manuscripts, and the questions other scholars stopped asking. Her newest obsession is an impossible rumor surrounding The Gilded Promise, a novel whose original edition vanished before publication. Decades later, a young doctor named Adrian Hale claimed the book had transported him to 1878 Albion. He was dismissed as insane, institutionalized, and erased from history. Clara knows the story is absurd. Then the book finds her. Pulled into another century, she comes face-to-face with Adrian and realizes the strange footnote in her research is a living man caught inside a future she has already read. Adrian is searching for the same mysterious volume that displaced him, desperate to escape a fate that seems to be closing around him. Clara wants answers for her thesis, but the closer she gets to Adrian, the less his life feels like research. Victorian streets are dangerous for a modern woman, public suspicion is growing around them, and every choice risks changing the history Clara thought she understood. Their only guide is a book that appears when it chooses, vanishes without warning, and seems to have plans of its own. Attraction deepens while time itself refuses to behave. Clara knows where Adrian's story is supposed to end. Adrian knows sending her home may be the only way to keep her safe. Neither is prepared for the possibility that the book did not bring them together simply to separate them again. To escape the past, they must discover why the story chose them before history closes its pages around Adrian for good.
Clara has built her academic life around dead authors, lost manuscripts, and the questions other scholars stopped asking. Her newest obsession is an impossible rumor surrounding The Gilded Promise, a novel whose original edition vanished before publication. Decades later, a young doctor named Adr...
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