The Repair Shop of Broken Rules

The Repair Shop of Broken Rules is a haunting dark fantasy novel that weaves together grief time and the hidden costs of second chances. When journalist Mina Kovács inherits her father’s broken pocket watch she stumbles into a mysterious shop that mends the unmendable—for a price no one understands until it’s too late. The enigmatic proprietor Elias Clayton offers to fix it but the cost is a memory—one she doesn’t realize is vital until it’s gone. As Mina uncovers the shop’s dark legacy through its other customers—a widow clinging to a ghost an artist enslaved by envy a CEO chasing “someday”—she learns its five twisted rules: The obstacle is the way. “Later” is a lie. Attachment is suffering. Comparison is poison. Control is an illusion. Now the shop’s gears are failing. Its prisoners are waking. And Mina must choose: help burn it all down or become its next Keeper. Perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Night Circus this debut novel blends lyrical prose with eerie clockwork horror—a tale of what we sacrifice to outrun our past.