Clockwork Gardner

The most intricate clockwork can mend a broken heart, but only if its inventor dares to step into the rain.​Elara Vane is Oakhaven's most brilliant but fiercely solitary clockmaker. She doesn't just repair timepieces; she builds impossible wonders—and her masterpiece is Root, a nine-inch-tall brass automaton powered by a pulsing amethyst core. Root is designed to achieve what no one else can: bring life back to the village's blighted, barren public garden.​But to succeed, Elara must risk more than just failure. As Root begins his quiet, miraculous work, word of his power reaches the greedy ears of Silas Finch, an industrial rival who wants the amethyst core for his own brutal machines.​Now, Elara must leave the sanctuary of her workshop and choose between the flawless perfection of isolation, or the messy courage required to defend her creation, her neighbors, and the first vibrant rose to bloom in Oakhaven in five years.​