The Hours She Broke · Young adult novel series

The book and the needle.

This world is a diary you can walk. The compass is the other table of contents — it does not point north, and it does not care that you noticed.

Front cover of The Forgotten Hour: a young woman in a dark coat holding a brass compass, a burning old city at her back.

Book 1

The Hours She Broke, Book 1: The Forgotten Hour

Coming soon

Illustrated travel map for The Forgotten Hour: dotted routes from Mina’s house to London 1666, Prague 1939, the Silk Road, Chicago 1893, San Francisco 1906, Iceland, and the Still City.
The Forgotten Hour · The travels of Book One

Marlow

I wrote the hour down because the clock would not. The house was quiet in the way that means someone already left.

The drawer

The compass was under twine and a blunt knife. Brass gone green at the hinge. I set it on the page. It chose a direction the map does not have.

Still open

Seven entries. No ending. If you are reading this, you are in the first week with me. The rest of the book is still dark.