"Nobody lasts more than a week in there," Mrs. Hatherwick whispered. "The last tenant said the walls breathe ."
Silas Vane screamed. The walls shook. The gears in the chamber spun faster, throwing off sparks. As Nora jammed the wrench into the clock's mainspring, the blue core flared so bright she had to close her eyes. She felt the house shudder, heard the smaller clocks in the walls above her shatter one by one, and then— the house with a clock in its walls putlocker
"Who are you?" Nora demanded.
A skeptical young woman inherits her late uncle's eerie Victorian mansion, only to discover that a cursed clock hidden within the walls doesn't just tell time—it counts down to the end of the world. Part One: The Inheritance Nora Crane hadn't spoken to her Uncle Lewis in twelve years. Not since the incident at the family reunion when he tried to prove the existence of "temporal fractures" by setting his pocket watch on fire. So when the letter arrived—stiff parchment, wax seal, no return address—announcing that Lewis Pendelton had died and left her his house, she assumed it was a prank. "Nobody lasts more than a week in there," Mrs
Real silence. Not the absence of sound, but the kind of quiet that comes after a storm. She opened her eyes. The walls shook