The Derby Timelapse

by Amy Simone

For Lila Voss, Derby Day is a painful anniversary, marking the mysterious death of her father. This year, beneath the familiar roar of the crowd, a forgotten clocktower chimes, revealing a hidden key and a truth her father guarded with his the tower is more than stone and gears—it controls time itself.Her longshot Thoroughbred, Chronos, isn't just an underdog; he possesses an uncanny ability to defy physics, mysteriously linked to the tower's power.
Lila is thrust into a hidden world where three secret factions—The Timekeepers, The Continuity, and the insidious Spiral—wage a silent war for control of the timestream.Senator William Blackwood, a powerful figure with ancient eyes, seeks the ultimate power the tower holds, attainable only with three distinct Past, Present, and Future. Now it's Derby Day again. She remembers everything—the race, the secrets, the betrayal, the implosion—but the world is on repeat. Chronos remembers too. The clocktower is waiting. Senator Blackwood knows what's coming.Caught in a terrifying loop, Lila must navigate a temporal battlefield, armed with only her father's key, a cryptic warning, and the knowledge that the stakes are higher than just winning the Derby—they're about anchoring reality itself.
Can she break the loop and prevent The Spiral from bending time to their will, or is history doomed to repeat... endlessly?

47 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 6, 2025