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The Clockmaker's Covenant
From a new voice in historical fiction comes a deeply human story of a pivotal the birth of the American Revolution.
A CLOCKMAKER WITH A DEADLY SECRET
Hans walks Boston’s frozen streets in 1770, a young man with inexplicable skills. Trained in exile by Voltaire, he carries the burden of a decade-long to destroy the machine that decides which nations rise and which fall, its existence threatening not just rulers but the lives of all who live beneath their sway. He trades in gears and springs, but deals in secrets and survival.
A CONSPIRACY THAT PREDICTS THE IMPOSSIBLE
The Machina a mechanical oracle hidden in Boston’s shadows, built by minds merging Enlightenment genius with colonial ambition. It predicts and engineers rebellion, death by calculation. Its creators believe they’ve reduced human nature to mathematics, that liberty can be controlled through equations and probability.
A REVOLUTION THAT WILL DEFINE A NATION
When four colonists fall dead on King Street, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty believe they’re orchestrating resistance. They don’t know they’re dancing to a machine’s design. Hans alone recognizes the pattern—and faces an impossible choice. Complete his mission and destroy the Machina, or save the revolution from becoming exactly what its architects predicted. As funeral bells toll and Boston threatens to explode into open warfare, one question haunts can free will survive in a world where the future has already been calculated?
Ambitious in scope, The Clockmaker’s Covenant shows the American Revolution as never before—Freemasons, philosophers, and patriots battle for the soul of liberty.
A CLOCKMAKER WITH A DEADLY SECRET
Hans walks Boston’s frozen streets in 1770, a young man with inexplicable skills. Trained in exile by Voltaire, he carries the burden of a decade-long to destroy the machine that decides which nations rise and which fall, its existence threatening not just rulers but the lives of all who live beneath their sway. He trades in gears and springs, but deals in secrets and survival.
A CONSPIRACY THAT PREDICTS THE IMPOSSIBLE
The Machina a mechanical oracle hidden in Boston’s shadows, built by minds merging Enlightenment genius with colonial ambition. It predicts and engineers rebellion, death by calculation. Its creators believe they’ve reduced human nature to mathematics, that liberty can be controlled through equations and probability.
A REVOLUTION THAT WILL DEFINE A NATION
When four colonists fall dead on King Street, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty believe they’re orchestrating resistance. They don’t know they’re dancing to a machine’s design. Hans alone recognizes the pattern—and faces an impossible choice. Complete his mission and destroy the Machina, or save the revolution from becoming exactly what its architects predicted. As funeral bells toll and Boston threatens to explode into open warfare, one question haunts can free will survive in a world where the future has already been calculated?
Ambitious in scope, The Clockmaker’s Covenant shows the American Revolution as never before—Freemasons, philosophers, and patriots battle for the soul of liberty.
517 pages, Paperback
Published October 26, 2025
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November 2, 2025
An exciting read, filled with twists that will keep you guessing. If you think you know the story behind the Boston Massacre, you are missing one important, yet hidden element: Hans. This book tells the story of this shadowy figure, as he moves through the streets of Boston, creating a revolution. The main character is fascinating and has a unique backstory.
The scenes move quickly and you will never be bored. The author manages to weave together historical fact, fiction, and mysterious secret society-dealings. I highly recommend giving this a try!
The scenes move quickly and you will never be bored. The author manages to weave together historical fact, fiction, and mysterious secret society-dealings. I highly recommend giving this a try!
November 6, 2025
Historic Fiction is not what I primarily look for in a book. Knowing the author that was the first thing that intrigued me, and I knew this was his first novel. Within in a few chapters, the main character, Hans, and the Boston Massacre, had me interested in where this was going. It also had me Googling some of the obscure names to find out they were the real people involved. Within the first one hundred pages you are learning questioning the background of Hans.
Around page two hundred you start the see the humanity and empathy of Hans, and the sinister fiction characters more. By page three hundred, I was hooked and had to finish it. The conspiracy, the suspense, adventure, the history I didn’t know, and the most amazing part that we live with today in our everyday life, “the machine.”
Ninety-five percent of the books I have read this year are crime mysteries, or government agency murder conspiracy. This book had all of that and I love it.
I like the way it ended, and can see success and how to make a second book of Hans.
You will see a look into the author and his inspiration in the Afterward.
Around page two hundred you start the see the humanity and empathy of Hans, and the sinister fiction characters more. By page three hundred, I was hooked and had to finish it. The conspiracy, the suspense, adventure, the history I didn’t know, and the most amazing part that we live with today in our everyday life, “the machine.”
Ninety-five percent of the books I have read this year are crime mysteries, or government agency murder conspiracy. This book had all of that and I love it.
I like the way it ended, and can see success and how to make a second book of Hans.
You will see a look into the author and his inspiration in the Afterward.
October 27, 2025
I had access to an advanced copy, which is how I finished this so quickly. Excellent! Intrigue and conspiracy galore, but easy to follow. The author brings you into the main character’s psyche and the unique way of his thought process. I loved the historical fiction and its centering around an alternate concept of how the Revolutionary War began. Definitely recommend!
March 23, 2026
Loved this book so much! Hans is a fascinating character that works his way through the pages of this story and will leave you guessing what’s going to happen next.
Fortune does a masterful job of writing in both historical fact and fiction. I highly recommend this book.
Fortune does a masterful job of writing in both historical fact and fiction. I highly recommend this book.
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