Cursed Cogs: A Dystopian Steampunk Romance

Broken hearts and broken parts.Thats all anyone is left with after Ezra Huxleys time machine shatters reality in 1916 Boston. The mechanical abomination plagues the city with an hourly time warp signaled by the bells of the new Custom House Tower Clock.Isla Huxleys wedding ended in disaster after the Break and now her husband is in a coma. Shes spent the last three months in the Post Boston Infirmary waiting for her rich uncle to fix her life yet again. But when he instead sends her out into Late Boston to retrieve her fathers journal in hopes of fixing the time machine she comes face to face with Dorian Verne the man she once dreamed of having a future with before her uncle shipped her off to school in Europe. Dorian lives a humble life as a clocksmith but his skills are put to the test when the timeline-altered citizens of Late Boston come to him for mechanical remedies to survive the tolling of the bells from the cursed world clock. But Dorian was also Ezras apprentice and when the inventor disappears he vows to build a new time machine and set things right. Not just for those living on clockwork and borrowed time but for Isla the one who got away.