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Ashes of the Unwritten
Book Three of The Clocksmith's War

In a world where time is engineered, weaponized, and worshiped, the rebellion has fractured not just empires—but reality itself.

The shattered timeline has begun to bleed. Forgotten cities blink in and out of existence. Echoed versions of the dead walk among the living. And at the center of the unraveling stands Marek Quen—a rogue clocksmith burdened by the scars of choices he no longer remembers making.

After the fall of the Meridian Spire and the awakening of the Ember Hour, Marek and his allies are hunted across warped timelines by agents of the Harmonium of Continuity. The Empire has abandoned stability in favor of total narrative control, dispatching Revisionists and Echo Queens to erase resistance from history itself. But the Resistance is not done yet.

Together with Eris Vale, a resistance tech who walks the edge of unreality, and Varric the timewalker, Marek journeys into forgotten districts, mythic machines, and ghost-riddled cities to seek a final answer: a way to repair the chronostream without becoming monsters in the process. But with every step forward, he sees fragments of who he could have been—and the cost of who he's become.

As Marek nears the Forge That Was Never Built and faces the Unwritten—the fractured god lurking between possibilities—he must decide: will he let the past define what remains of history? Or will he burn the last laws of time to forge a future of free will, even if it means losing himself?

Ashes of the Unwritten is a sweeping tale of memory, identity, and the terrifying beauty of choice. In this stunning third installment of The Clocksmith's War, time is not a straight line—it's a battlefield.