{"product_id":"the-clock-that-tick-tocked-9798231126637","title":"The Clock That Tick Tocked","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alden Cross\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shadow Auction Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shadow Auction Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome clocks tick forward. This one remembers backward.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Eli Grant doesn't believe in haunted heirlooms or secret auctions selling memory-bound relics. He's just trying to survive another shift at his family's struggling auction house without disappointing his older sister, Ivy, or provoking their formidable grandfather, Henry Grant-a legendary auctioneer who's been more shadow than man since Eli's mother vanished years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Lot 27-a strange children's clock with a drooping hand and a faint Spiral carved into its base-gets sold to a bidder who doesn't blink, something inside Eli begins to fracture. His sketches start changing on their own. Time hiccups. Memories twitch. And the spirals that keep appearing in his drawings don't feel like symbols. They feel like echoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he finds the invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden in his sketchbook, printed in black Spiral ink, the card is unmarked. Undeniable. And it pulls him into a world he was never meant to see: the \u003cstrong\u003eShadow Auction\u003c\/strong\u003e, an underground market where relics infused with memory and emotion are traded between masked collectors, Spiralbound operatives, and forbidden factions with names like Vaultborn and Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the middle of it all is \u003cstrong\u003eSeraphine\u003c\/strong\u003e, a too-charming, too-calm relic hunter who knows far too much about Eli's family-and seems determined to win the very clock he can't stop sketching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Eli follows the Spiral deeper into forgotten vaults, back-room bids, and relics that seem to recognize him, he uncovers more than just a family secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe discovers the Spiral is alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt hums beneath the skin of old clocks.\u003cbr\u003eIt warps time around certain objects.\u003cbr\u003eAnd it remembers people. Especially the ones who try to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow hunted by masked collectors, haunted by visions of a woman he can't remember, and pulled between truth and time, Eli must decide who to trust-and whether to follow the Spiral deeper or run before it winds him too tight to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Spiral doesn't choose you because you're ready.\u003cbr\u003eIt chooses you because you're fractured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE CLOCK THAT TICK-TOCKED\u003c\/strong\u003e is Book One in the \u003cem\u003eShadow Auction Series\u003c\/em\u003e, a cinematic, fast-paced, emotionally rich YA fantasy-thriller saga filled with forbidden relics, fractured timelines, identity twists, and supernatural secrets waiting to surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003cem\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Maze Runner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Night Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLockwood \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a darkly magical, memory-driven adventure where every object holds a story-and some stories won't stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e➤ Follow Eli Grant into a world where clocks don't tell time-they rewrite it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401512210583,"sku":"9798231126637","price":947.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798231126637.webp?v=1769056713","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-clock-that-tick-tocked-9798231126637","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}