The Time Thief

Imagine a world where everyone is born knowing the exact moment they will die.

A world where, at birth, everyone is randomly assigned a clock, pre-wound and counting down to their final immutable, unquestioned, and absolute second. For most, it's an unchangeable fate. For a privileged few, it's an opportunity.

With less than a year left on hers, Mia has already made peace with the inevitable. At least until a violent encounter fractures everything she thought she understood, revealing a possibility that should not exist: that Time can be stolen.

Mia finds herself working alongside two Keeper brothers, sworn guardians of the order of Time. Quinn is steady, composed, and bound to the rules that hold their world together. Miles is sharp, defiant, and far more willing to defy them. Drawn between their clashing orbits, Mia begins to question everything she was raised to believe, down to the very Time she has left.

But as truths surface, so does something far more perilous: a love that was never meant to take root. Shaped by grief, divided by loyalty, and shadowed by the knowledge of being doomed from the start, it becomes a bond as fated as it is fragile.

Set in a richly imagined steampunk world inspired by the glamour and grit of the 1940s, The Time Thief is a romantic, clockwork-fueled tale of stolen futures, fractured loyalties, and the fleeting, delicate beauty of Time-and those we choose to spend it with.