The town of Evershade was never on any map. Nestled between rolling hills and a forest that seemed to breathe, it was a place where time moved slower—or so the locals claimed.
Lila Hart, the clockmaker’s daughter, had spent her life winding gears and polishing brass, her father’s workshop a sanctuary of ticking and tocking. But one morning, she woke to find the bakery on Elm Street gone. Not closed. Gone. As if it had never existed.
The townsfolk didn’t notice. They sipped their tea and chatted about the weather, their memories unraveling like old thread. But Lila remembered. She remembered the baker’s laugh, the smell of fresh bread, and the way he always slipped her an extra croissant. When the post office vanished next, she knew something was terribly wrong.
Her father, Elias Hart—a man of few words and infinite patience—refused to speak of it. But in his workshop, Lila found clues: a half-finished clock with no hands, a journal filled with cryptic notes, and a photograph of her mother, who had disappeared years ago. The more she searched, the more she realized the town’s fate was tied to her family.
As Evershade crumbled around her, Lila raced against time to uncover the truth. But the deeper she went, the more she forgot—her childhood, her mother’s face, even her own name.
In the end, it wasn’t just the town she had to save.
It was herself.