The Curse of Time

<p>When Time breaks its own laws-freezing ageing and natural death for those in their prime-the Universe starts calling its pieces home. Tobias a Birmingham professor moored to a canal narrowboat and to the man he loves hears that call clearest.</p><p>Recruited by Time and Death Tobias steps from quiet water and crowded wards into an underground garden built for endings. Daisy learns to hold starlight. Music's golden threads tug from a Phuket nightclub to an Andean summit. The rules are literal impatient and powerful.</p><p>As eclipses supernovae and eight hundred-plus timelines converge Tobias must find a risky alignment that restores Earth's rhythm without surrendering himself Daisy or the future he and Stuart are building. Can he keep the Universe at bay long enough to bring the world home?<br> </p>