Evaline carried her own central cog outside the city so she could follow Matthias to London, unaware that this would cause the town of Maldon to become frozen in time. As a result, they are both fired.ĭanny discovers that Matthias has secretly been living with Evaline, the clock spirit from Maldon. Daphne is injured in an explosion, casting suspicion Danny. Danny secretly trades assignments with Daphne, another mechanic, so he can continue visiting Colton in Enfield. Several mechanics are injured or killed by bombs. The lead mechanic pulls Danny from the Enfield post, citing concerns about Danny’s mental health. They fall in love, although relationships between spirits and humans are forbidden.Ī series of bombing attacks target clock towers around England. Because Colton is unable to travel far from his tower, he repeatedly sabotages his own mechanisms in order to get Danny to come and repair them. Matthias, Danny’s mentor, was previously fired from the Maldon assignment and banished from the town after falling in love with Maldon's clock spirit.ĭanny is summoned to repair the Colton Clock Tower in Enfield, where he meets clock’s spirit, also named Colton.

Additionally, his father Christopher has been trapped in time since a clock tower broke down in Maldon three years ago. Danny suffers from panic attacks after being injured by a bomb planted in a clock tower. In England in 1875, 17-year-old Danny Hart works as a mechanic. Clock mechanics are valuable members of society, because a broken clock tower can cause time to flow abnormally or even stop. Since the death of Aetas, humans have used clock towers to regulate the flow of time. As retribution for this, he was supposedly killed by Chronos. The series comprises Timekeeper (2016), Chainbreaker (2018), and Firestarter (2019).Īetas, an ancient god, once granted humans the power to control time. The Timekeeper Trilogy is a series of young adult steampunk novels by Tara Sim. Fantasy literature, Steampunk, Young adult fiction

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