In an alternate Victorian-era world controlled by clock towers, where damaged clocks can break time itself and broken clocks can stop it completely, a prodigy mechanic desperately works to save his father from a Stopped town; a series of bombings threaten all England; a boy searches desperately for a way to turn back time and relive his past; and a romance that threatens time itself ensues.

Cordelia Carstairs' romantic dreams must be put on hold when a serial killer begins targeting the Shadowhunters of London, sending the Merry Thieves on the trail of a knife-wielding killer.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.