Samantha Grey

In the fog-drowned village of Merrin's Hollow, time has begun to break. Clocks tick backward, memories slip, and the fog whispers with voices long dead. When twelve-year-old Liora Garrow stumbles into Elias Merrin's strange clock shop, she discovers a world where gears remember grief and every heartbeat keeps its own secret. Her mother's disappearance, her father's guilt, and the ancient River of Time beneath the town are all connected - and waking.
As the fog thickens and hours begin to vanish, Liora must face the truth: some things shouldn't be fixed, and time always takes its due.