Length11h 59m
About this audiobook
An empire ran on perfect time. Perfect time ran on something worse.
For sixty years, the great clock of Hollowmere kept perfect time. Trains ran, harbors opened, an empire set its calendar by the city's bells, and no one asked what the bargain cost.
Six weeks ago, the clock stopped.
Now Hollowmere is dark and cold for the first time in living memory, and, for the first time in living memory, honest. The cathedral on the hill still stands. Its bells still ring. Its high order still claims authority over a congregation whose grief is real and whose faith was built on a foundation only a handful of men have ever been permitted to see.
A ship returns to the harbor with questions no one wants to answer. And in the cathedral at the top of the city, the Arch-Cogitant is preparing a ceremony that will make visible, for the first time, what the beautiful thing has always been doing.
The clock stopped. The cathedral is still standing.
That is the problem.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Romance
Length11 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 — The Weaver’s Rest
4Chapter 2 — Someone Louder
5Chapter 3 — The Escapement Wheel
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6Chapter 4 — The Breath Before the Vice
7Chapter 5 — The Sixty-Year Wait
8Chapter 6 — The Church’s Platform
9Chapter 7 — The Deliberate Pattern
10Chapter 8 — The Most Lost
11Chapter 9 — The Gap Is Longer on Tuesdays
12Chapter 10 — The Weight of a Name
13Chapter 11 — Honey Cakes and Sunday Mornings
14Chapter 12 — The Old Liturgy
15Chapter 13 — The Anchor and the Cold
16Chapter 14 — The Church’s Lost
17Chapter 15 — The Terrible Calm
18Chapter 16 — The Mercenary and the Problem
19Chapter 17 — The Bureaucrat at the Door
20Chapter 18 — The Resignation That Isn’t
21Chapter 19 — The Names of Something Known
22Chapter 20 — The Calculation Shifts
23Chapter 21 — The Timing
24Chapter 22 — The Wire Through Her Hands
25Chapter 23 — The Second Instrument
26Chapter 24 — The Competence Hearing
27Chapter 25 — What the Crane Remembered
28Chapter 26 — The Lych-Gate
29Chapter 27 — The Form Kira Signed
30Chapter 28 — The Hour of the Voice
31Chapter 29 — She Is Turning
32Chapter 30 — The Covered Mirrors
33Chapter 31 — Callum
34Chapter 32 — The Pen
35Chapter 33 — Come to Bed, Callum
36Chapter 34 — The Silver Chair Glows
37Chapter 35 — The World Becomes Larger
38Chapter 36 — The City Notices Nothing
39Chapter 37 — The Expulsion
40Chapter 38 — The Violet Light Returns
41Closing Credits
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