Emma and the Stolen Sunrise (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Margarito III Barraza, 2026
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Paperback. For eighty-four consecutive mornings, Emma Windmere has stood on the fifth-floor fire escape of her home in Oakhaven and watched for the sunrise. Since the death of her grandmother Nora, she has become convinced that someone must remain awake to make sure morning arrives. Her vigil seems like an expression of grief-until one morning, the sun fails to rise.Instead of becoming brighter, the eastern horizon turns into an unnatural black void. The temperature plunges, the streets freeze, and the entire city of Oakhaven stops moving. A courier is trapped in midair on his bicycle. A streetcar hangs motionless on its tracks. Even Emma's mother, Sylvie, becomes frozen in an arrested state, her heartbeat slowing as the missing morning steals warmth from the world.Then the grandfather clock that once belonged to Nora begins to speak.Through its broken mechanisms, Emma hears her grandmother's voice explaining that the sunrise has been stolen. The clock's gears have been sabotaged, its Anchor has slipped, and the ancient balance that allows dawn to arrive has been disrupted.Inside the clock's pendulum housing, Emma discovers Aurore, a magnificent supernatural bird made of rose-gold, molten copper, and crystalline light. Aurore is the living embodiment of dawn, but the creature has been trapped inside the clockwork mechanism and bound by iron. Every backward movement of the clock pushes the city deeper into the deadly Blind Hour.Emma realizes that saving her mother and restoring the sunrise are part of the same struggle.Guided by Nora's remaining knowledge and the strange powers awakening within her, Emma enters a hidden world of clockwork, temporal forces, and ancient covenants. Her journey forces her to confront not only the mysterious thief who turned the key against the sun, but also the emotional reason the disaster was possible in the first place: grief and the desperate desire to prevent loss by freezing time.As Emma searches for a way to repair the damaged mechanism, she discovers that the forces threatening Oakhaven are connected to people who have been unable to accept the natural movement of time. The stolen sunrise becomes more than a supernatural catastrophe. It becomes a reflection of the temptation to hold on to the past forever.Emma must therefore learn to do the opposite. She cannot save the people she loves by keeping them trapped in an unchanging moment. She must restore the movement of time, even though doing so means accepting that life continues forward and that loss cannot simply be undone.With courage, mechanical skill, and the knowledge inherited from Nora, Emma helps restore the broken balance. Dawn returns to Oakhaven, the frozen city begins to move again, and Aurore is freed from the clockwork prison.In the aftermath, Emma finds a new way to understand her grandmother's legacy. The work of keeping the morning does not belong to one solitary watcher. It belongs to a community willing to help one another face whatever comes next.Emma and the Stolen Sunrise is an atmospheric fantasy adventure about time, grief, family, craftsmanship, and learning to let the future arrive. Beneath its supernatural mystery is a heartfelt story about accepting loss without allowing it to steal the possibility of tomorrow. When the dawn fails to break and the world freezes in a timeless void, a grieving girl must navigate a realm of clockwork magic to liberate the light and learn that moving forward is the only way to truly honor the past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Titre
- Emma and the Stolen Sunrise (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Marcus Singletary
- Éditeur
- Margarito III Barraza
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798182800891
For eighty-four consecutive mornings, Emma Windmere has stood on the fifth-floor fire escape of her home in Oakhaven and watched for the sunrise. Since the death of her grandmother Nora, she has become convinced that someone must remain awake to make sure morning arrives. Her vigil seems like an expression of grief-until one morning, the sun fails to rise.Instead of becoming brighter, the eastern horizon turns into an unnatural black void. The temperature plunges, the streets freeze, and the entire city of Oakhaven stops moving. A courier is trapped in midair on his bicycle. A streetcar hangs motionless on its tracks. Even Emma's mother, Sylvie, becomes frozen in an arrested state, her heartbeat slowing as the missing morning steals warmth from the world.Then the grandfather clock that once belonged to Nora begins to speak.Through its broken mechanisms, Emma hears her grandmother's voice explaining that the sunrise has been stolen. The clock's gears have been sabotaged, its Anchor has slipped, and the ancient balance that allows dawn to arrive has been disrupted.Inside the clock's pendulum housing, Emma discovers Aurore, a magnificent supernatural bird made of rose-gold, molten copper, and crystalline light. Aurore is the living embodiment of dawn, but the creature has been trapped inside the clockwork mechanism and bound by iron. Every backward movement of the clock pushes the city deeper into the deadly Blind Hour.Emma realizes that saving her mother and restoring the sunrise are part of the same struggle.Guided by Nora's remaining knowledge and the strange powers awakening within her, Emma enters a hidden world of clockwork, temporal forces, and ancient covenants. Her journey forces her to confront not only the mysterious thief who turned the key against the sun, but also the emotional reason the disaster was possible in the first place: grief and the desperate desire to prevent loss by freezing time.As Emma searches for a way to repair the damaged mechanism, she discovers that the forces threatening Oakhaven are connected to people who have been unable to accept the natural movement of time. The stolen sunrise becomes more than a supernatural catastrophe. It becomes a reflection of the temptation to hold on to the past forever.Emma must therefore learn to do the opposite. She cannot save the people she loves by keeping them trapped in an unchanging moment. She must restore the movement of time, even though doing so means accepting that life continues forward and that loss cannot simply be undone.With courage, mechanical skill, and the knowledge inherited from Nora, Emma helps restore the broken balance. Dawn returns to Oakhaven, the frozen city begins to move again, and Aurore is freed from the clockwork prison.In the aftermath, Emma finds a new way to understand her grandmother's legacy. The work of keeping the morning does not belong to one solitary watcher. It belongs to a community willing to help one another face whatever comes next.Emma and the Stolen Sunrise is an atmospheric fantasy adventure about time, grief, family, craftsmanship, and learning to let the future arrive. Beneath its supernatural mystery is a heartfelt story about accepting loss without allowing it to steal the possibility of tomorrow.
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