The Clockmaker's Covenant

From a new voice in historical fiction comes a deeply human story of a pivotal moment: the birth of the American Revolution.A CLOCKMAKER WITH A DEADLY SECRETHans walks Boston’s frozen streets in 1770, a young man with inexplicable skills. Trained in exile by Voltaire, he carries the burden of a decade-long mission: to destroy the machine that decides which nations rise and which fall, its existence threatening not just rulers but the lives of all who live beneath their sway. He trades in gears and springs, but deals in secrets and survival.A CONSPIRACY THAT PREDICTS THE IMPOSSIBLEThe Machina Tempora: a mechanical oracle hidden in Boston’s shadows, built by minds merging Enlightenment genius with colonial ambition. It predicts and engineers rebellion, death by calculation. Its creators believe they’ve reduced human nature to mathematics, that liberty can be controlled through equations and probability.A REVOLUTION THAT WILL DEFINE A NATIONWhen four colonists fall dead on King Street, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty believe they’re orchestrating resistance. They don’t know they’re dancing to a machine’s design. Hans alone recognizes the pattern—and faces an impossible choice. Complete his mission and destroy the Machina, or save the revolution from becoming exactly what its architects predicted. As funeral bells toll and Boston threatens to explode into open warfare, one question haunts him: can free will survive in a world where the future has already been calculated?Ambitious in scope, The Clockmaker’s Covenant shows the American Revolution as never before—Freemasons, philosophers, and patriots battle for the soul of liberty. Read more