In a city powered by brass, steam, and stolen seconds, time is no longer stable.
Inventor Elyra Voss uncovers a forbidden device hidden inside an antique navigation tool—the Clockwork Compass, a machine that doesn’t point north, but when. When she activates it, reality fractures. Streets reset. People remember lives they never lived. And the ruling Chronal Council marks her for erasure.
Forced to flee through gaslit alleys and broken hours, Elyra joins Rowan Hale, a rogue time-runner who knows the Compass far too well. Together, they uncover a terrifying truth: time travel wasn’t invented to explore history—it was built to control it.
The Compass has awakened something ancient.
And time is watching her now.