About this book:

In a bustling, steam-powered Victorian London, young Amelia Hawthorne, a gifted tinkerer, stumbles upon her eccentric Uncle Percival’s greatest secret: the Chronos Engine, a device capable of time travel. This extraordinary discovery reveals her long-lost mother, Elara, wasn't dead, but a chrononaut trapped in the past, actively battling the clandestine Chrono League. This shadowy organization, led by the ruthless Alistair Thorne, seeks to control the entirety of history, imposing their vision of an "optimal future" on humanity.

Amelia and Percival's first daring jump to the industrial future inadvertently creates a temporal rift over Paris, attracting the attention of Thorne, who reveals his past connection to Elara and Percival as former "Temporal Pathfinders." Forced to outwit Thorne and close the rift, Amelia must gather an improbable team of allies from across different eras—including a futuristic temporal agent, a Viking warrior, an Elizabethan spy, a 20th-century scientist, a nervous street magician, and the brilliant inventor Phileas Cogsworth, whose consciousness resides within his colossal automaton, the Gilded Sentinel.

United, this anachronistic team embarks on a series of daring temporal "skirmishes," dismantling Chrono League operations across centuries and ultimately confronting Thorne in a climactic battle for the Prime Conflux, the wellspring of all causality. Amelia triumphs, not through brute force, but by harnessing the power of free will and the infinite possibilities of the "True Timeline," sending Thorne back into the boundless causality he sought to control. With the Chrono League vanquished and the Nexus protected, Amelia finds her mother's essence intertwined with the Nexus, leaving behind a "Nexus Proxy" for guidance. Amelia embraces her destiny as the Guardian of Time, ready to safeguard the freedom of all timelines, ensuring humanity's future remains unwritten and unbound.