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"When the clock strikes thirteen, the world doesn't just stop—it breaks." Lucian Cross is a Courier in the city of Ouroboros. By day, he fixes antique watches; but in the "Hollow Time"—that impossible space between midnight and a new day—he moves the things the daylight world refuses to acknowledge. In a world of frozen raindrops and charcoal shadows, Lucian follows one rule: never stop moving. But when he finds a ten-year-old girl who should be a statue but is instead crying for help, the rules of the 13th Hour are shattered. She is an "Awakened," a natural-born paradox that the Chronos-Eaters—featureless, porcelain-masked monsters—are desperate to consume. Now, hunted by the janitors of reality and burdened with a binding contract he cannot drop, Lucian must protect the girl until the sun rises. But in a city where time is a weapon, the greatest threat might not be the monsters in the shadows, but the man standing at the end of the tunnel. The clock is ticking. And the thirteenth hour is hungry.
The city of Ouroboros did not sleep; it merely paused to reload.
Lucian Cross sat in the high-backed lea...
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