The Clockwork Prince

von Daniel Mancha

186 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Hazel Carter has spent years repairing the broken mechanisms of the past. She trusts gears, springs, and precise measurements because machines obey rules. People do not.That certainty shatters when a mysterious music box is forced into her hands during a deadly chase through the Midnight Lantern Market. Hidden inside the brass reliquary is a miniature clockwork prince-and something far more impossible than an automaton.When Hazel winds the mechanism, Prince Tristan Everhart returns.He is not truly alive. Four centuries ago, Tristan died beneath the shadow of a royal conspiracy and was imprisoned within an intricate mechanical reliquary. His soul has survived as a fragile resonance, trapped between the living world and the darkness inside the machine. Every time Hazel winds the box, she gives him another few minutes of existence-but each return brings him closer to complete dissolution.Tristan recognizes something in Hazel that frightens him. Her face, her hands, even the way she measures his pulse echo the woman who once tried to save him. Yet Hazel is not that woman, and she refuses to become another servant of a centuries-old tragedy.Soon she discovers that Tristan's imprisonment was no accident. Madam Elizabeth Harrington, a powerful matriarch who has spent generations protecting her family's secrets, intends to use Hazel as the living vessel for a final transposition. If the ritual succeeds, Tristan can regain a physical body-but the machine will consume Hazel's mind and memories to create it.As Nathaniel Cross and Harrington's forces close in, Hazel must decide whether saving the prince is worth sacrificing herself. Tristan, meanwhile, faces the truth about his own resurrection: becoming fully human again would mean living through the death that has already been paid for with Hazel's life.Their relationship grows from suspicion into an impossible tenderness. Hazel sees the frightened man beneath the aristocratic title, while Tristan begins to understand that love cannot mean possessing another person's life.At the heart of the ancient mechanism, Hazel discovers the final choice. She can complete the transposition and give Tristan a body by surrendering herself-or destroy the mechanism and allow him to finally die.The Clockwork Prince is a dark romantic fantasy of forbidden resurrection, mechanical magic, ancient conspiracies, sacrifice, and love that refuses to become another form of imprisonment. In a world where even a dead prince can be wound back to life, Hazel must decide what matters more: keeping Tristan alive, or giving him the freedom to truly live-or finally rest.

• Themen: Belletristik Fantasyliteratur Historische Fantasy
• ISBN: 9798182769396
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: DANIEL MANCHA