The Distant Promise

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The brass escapement wheel was cold under Elias Thorne’s thumb, its teeth sharp enough to bite skin if he gripped too hard. He set it into the velvet-lined tray on the banquet table, the clatter of metal on wood cutting through the humid, heavy air of the Thorne manor. Thirty-two years old, a master clockmaker, and currently the most insolvent man in the county. The room was a suffocating...

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