Hearts of Gearsby

By Bodhi Archer

Time is the cage. She holds the key. But every second she hesitates, the countdown grows louder.

Evelyn Hart never wanted to inherit her grandfather's secrets. But when the brilliant quantum engineer returns to the steam-choked city of Gearsby to close his estate, she discovers a pocket watch unlike any other-a device humming with a fractal light that shouldn't exist. Inside its crystal lattice waits a message only she can decode: a set of coordinates, a warning about causal decay, and a key to a closed timelike curve buried beneath the city.

Her grandfather was no ordinary clockmaker. He was the architect of a temporal firewall designed to prevent a future time war-and someone murdered him to control it.

Now, with a rogue quantum physicist named Sebastian Reed at her side-a man haunted by a catastrophe he may have caused-Evelyn must navigate a labyrinth of sabotaged machinery, chronometric anomalies, and a ruthless industrialist who believes that time manipulation is humanity's salvation. As the parasitic resonance gnaws at the fabric of reality, Evelyn faces an impossible choice: sacrifice the timeline to save the world from a temporal tyranny, or become the anchor that holds causality together-even if it means losing herself in the event horizon forever.

Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and Recursion, Michael Crichton's Timeline, and James Rollins's techno-thrillers, Hearts of Gearsby is a mind-bending hard science fiction thriller that plunges into the deepest paradoxes of quantum physics, entanglement, and closed timelike curves. Packed with relentless suspense, breathtaking twists, and a heart-wrenching love story that defies the arrow of time, this is a page-turner that asks: if you could rewrite history, would you dare?

What readers are saying:
"A gripping time travel conspiracy with a cast you'll fall in love with."
"Crichton-level temporal mechanics meets the soul of a literary thriller."
"I couldn't put it down. The science feels real, and the stakes are higher than the universe itself."

Hearts of Gearsby is a sprawling saga of sacrifice, redemption, and the fragile threads that bind every moment of our lives. The countdown has already begun. Will you enter the cage?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DPZYK1Y8
• ISBN13: 9798303166110
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"