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THE LAST CLOCKMAKER
book-rating-imgREADING AGE 16+
Unique
Suspense/Thriller
ABSTRACT
EPISODE 1: THE CLOCK THAT REMEMBERED TOMORROWAt 11:59 p.m., every clock in Lagos suddenly stopped.Every clock except one.Inside his late grandfather’s old clock shop, seventeen-year-old Eli Adekunle watched a strange brass clock continue ticking. It had no hands or numbers—only symbols and one message:“WHEN THE CITY STOPS, OPEN THE DOOR.”A hidden staircase appeared beneath it.At the bottom, Eli found hundreds of clocks frozen at 11:59 and a secret laboratory. A machine suddenly activated.“SUBJECT SEVEN IDENTIFIED.”Then Eli saw a photograph of himself as a child beside his grandfather and several scientists.The date was 1998.The label read:PROJECT CHRONOS — SUBJECT 07.His grandfather had left one final message:“Do not trust the Clockmaker.”Then another appeared:“Because the Clockmaker is you.”THE MAN WITH THE SILVER WATCHAn elderly woman named Mara, who had known Eli’s grandfather, revealed the truth.His grandfather had discovered people capable of receiving memories from possible futures.There were seven subjects.Eli was Subject Seven.Before Eli could understand, a man in a gray suit entered.Silas Voss, his grandfather’s former partner.Silas opened a silver pocket watch—and for thirty seconds, everything around them froze.He explained that Chronos could alter timelines. He had changed history twelve times, trying to create a perfect future.But every change created another timeline.Then the machine activated again.A video appeared.It showed an older Eli.“If you're seeing this, Silas has found you. Don't believe him.”The older Eli revealed the truth:Silas's experiments had destroyed countless timelines.“There is only one timeline left.”Silas looked terrified.THE OTHER ELIThat night, Eli encountered an older version of himself beneath a streetlight.The man handed him the brass clock.“You have seventy-two hours.”Then he vanished.The clock changed.72 HOURS.Mara gave Eli a letter from his grandfather. It revealed that Eli's childhood memories contained a map leading to the First Clock, the original device beneath Lagos.Eli suddenly remembered where it was.THE FIRST CLOCKEli and Mara followed hidden symbols into an abandoned railway tunnel.Behind a metal door was a massive chamber.And there it was.The First Clock.Its hands moved in impossible circles.Silas appeared behind them.“I've spent twenty years searching for that.”Two switches appeared:RESTORERESETA voice announced:“FINAL TIMELINE DETECTED.”Eli remembered his grandfather's warning:“There was never a perfect future.”Silas wanted control.Eli reached for the controls.The First Clock struck midnight.Everything disappeared.EPILOGUEEli woke inside his grandfather's clock shop.Lagos was normal.The brass clock displayed:“TIME IS NOT A PRISON.”Then his phone received a message:YOU STOPPED SILAS.Another appeared:BUT YOU DIDN'T STOP ME.Eli looked outside.A man wearing a black coat stood across the street, holding a silver pocket watch.Then he vanished.Another message appeared:ASK MARA ABOUT SUBJECTS ONE THROUGH SIX.Eli found Mara.Her face went pale.“They weren't people,” she whispered.“They were experiments.”Deep beneath Lagos, another machine began to awaken.“TO BE CONTINUED…”EPISODE 2 PREVIEWTHE MAN WHO REMEMBERED TOMORROWEli thought the mystery was over.Then people across Lagos began remembering things that hadn't happened yet.A child draws a building that doesn't exist.A woman remembers a conversation before it happens.And Eli discovers a photograph showing himself beside a mysterious man years before he was born.Someone is changing people's memories.And this time, they aren't searching for the First Clock.They're searching for Eli.