If you could slow down time, what would you do? And what would it cost you?
When museum curator Matthew Thwaite discovers a sixteenth-century clock that can slow time itself, he thinks he's found the answer to his family's financial crisis. One turn of the clock's cap, and seconds stretch into minutes. Another turn, and he can move through a frozen world.
But the Sand Reckoner carries a warning: Fathom the ledger. Every use demands payment - not in money, but in something far more precious.
As Matthew's small crimes escalate from saving a colleague's exhibition to casino heists, he attracts the attention of Simeon Carillion and his centuries-old organisation, Accelera Optime. They've been hunting the clock for decades, and they'll do anything to possess it - including taking Matthew's seventeen-year-old daughter Jess.
Forced into their underground facility, Matthew discovers the true horror of temporal manipulation: conscious beings trapped in chambers where time itself can be collapsed. When a catastrophic resonance between the clock and their technology threatens reality itself, only an impossible sacrifice can prevent disaster.
Some debts can't be measured in numbers. Some prices continue being paid long after the bill comes due.
THE SAND RECKONER is a philosophical thriller that asks: What would you sacrifice to save your family? And what happens when the universe demands payment?
When museum curator Matthew Thwaite discovers a sixteenth-century clock that can slow time itself, he thinks he's found the answer to his family's financial crisis. One turn of the clock's cap, and seconds stretch into minutes. Another turn, and he can move through a frozen world.
But the Sand Reckoner carries a warning: Fathom the ledger. Every use demands payment - not in money, but in something far more precious.
As Matthew's small crimes escalate from saving a colleague's exhibition to casino heists, he attracts the attention of Simeon Carillion and his centuries-old organisation, Accelera Optime. They've been hunting the clock for decades, and they'll do anything to possess it - including taking Matthew's seventeen-year-old daughter Jess.
Forced into their underground facility, Matthew discovers the true horror of temporal manipulation: conscious beings trapped in chambers where time itself can be collapsed. When a catastrophic resonance between the clock and their technology threatens reality itself, only an impossible sacrifice can prevent disaster.
Some debts can't be measured in numbers. Some prices continue being paid long after the bill comes due.
THE SAND RECKONER is a philosophical thriller that asks: What would you sacrifice to save your family? And what happens when the universe demands payment?
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