The Hour That Turned Back: A Christmas Fantasy Novel

By dimitris kolompatsos

At the North Pole, the same hour keeps repeating. In the human world, Christmas morning is getting closer.

Thirteen-year-old Elin Voss expects a quiet Christmas Eve in her grandfather's clock shop. Then an old pocket watch begins to move strangely, and a mysterious bell calls her beyond the frozen harbor of Frostvik.

Following a ribbon of blue light, Elin discovers Everwinter-a hidden city beneath the Northern Lights, where elves prepare gifts and reindeer wait to carry them into the world.

But something has gone terribly wrong.

A weary elf's accident has turned the Great Clock back one hour. Every return undoes the preparations and erases the memory of what happened. Santa keeps checking his list, unaware that the gifts are still waiting to leave.

Elin's watch can preserve what everyone else forgets. With a determined clockmaker and an elf desperate to mend his mistake, she must cross the River of Seconds and reach the heart of the clock before the last roads to the human world close.

Back in Frostvik, her family keeps a lamp burning for her return.

The Hour That Turned Back is a Christmas fantasy adventure about the courage to ask for help-and the people waiting for us to come home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPK6935V
• ISBN13: 9798165880261
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"