Elira Vance has spent her entire life inside the Atelier of Missing Time, a strange gothic house filled with clocks that remember moments the world has forgotten.
Raised by the mysterious clockmaker Gideon Hartwell, Elira has always followed the rules that keep the Atelier—and its secrets—under control.
Never enter the locked rooms.
Never touch a clock that cries.
Never follow a hallway after it changes.
And never ask what happened before she became Gideon’s daughter.
But when Gideon suddenly disappears, the Atelier begins unraveling.
Doors open twice. Corridors repeat themselves. Clocks reveal memories that do not belong to Elira. A girl appears inside the glass, and a hidden mechanical heart begins counting seconds stolen from forgotten lives.
Searching for Gideon forces Elira to question everything she believes about her childhood, her memories, and the body she has always called her own.
The deeper she travels into the broken spaces between moments, the more she realizes the Atelier was never simply her home.
It was built to contain something.
And Elira may not have been born inside its walls.
She may have been created by them.
Every answer brings her closer to the truth—but every truth takes something in return.
A memory.
A name.
A piece of the person she believed she was.
The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a haunting gothic time-fantasy about forgotten lives, fractured memories, complicated family bonds, hidden identity, and one young woman’s fight to become more than the purpose she was created to serve