The Keeper Before Time

By Joshua Osswald

Short Back Story

Long before the Osswald family became bakers in Wisconsin,
they were keepers of time.

In 1702, Friedrich Osswald, a humble clockmaker in W rttemberg, discovered a sacred scroll hidden inside a broken cathedral clock. It spoke of seven secret codes to preserve time's purity - and warned of those who would twist time for power: the Stundenj ger.

Hunted by traitors, Friedrich fled across the Atlantic with his pregnant wife, carrying a single bronze Gear of Origin etched with scripture. He forged it into a cross-shaped clock and sealed it inside a chapel in Pennsylvania - the first Timekeeper's vault.

When Friedrich was killed defending the scroll, his family fled with the relics hidden in a trunk.

For more than a century, they vanished from history.

Until 1851, when a young baker named Christian Osswald opened the trunk... and the cross-clock ticked for the first time in a hundred years.

Time had waited.
Its Keeper had returned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRGG4SYM
• ISBN13: 9798265805744
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"