{"product_id":"backward-the-clockrealm-chronicles","title":"Backward (The Clockrealm Chronicles)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere I come from, time is everything—you breathe it, spend it, bleed it. And every five years, when the Clockrealm's magic supply runs low, the Turning Trials begin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwelve players. One mechanical arena. No guarantees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003eMy name is Ora Reese, and apparently, I've already lived this story once.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen I wake up, I don't know my own name for the first three seconds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the fourth, I'm sitting at a table with ten strangers, a queen who won't stop smiling, and a boy across from me whose face I've never seen before—yet know in detail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe're told we played in a game, survived, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We're told a curse is the reason we can't remember any of it, the same curse responsible for time moving backward, too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe're told a lot of things, but there’s no way to know what is the truth. Everything is brand new to me—except \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarch is supposed to be a stranger, just like everyone else, but somehow, my body remembers him. It's in the way I still when he gets too close, in the way my breath changes when he looks at me, in the feel of his skin against mine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike I've touched him before. Like I've wanted him just as badly then.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow we have to unwin trials we don't remember winning, survive a mechanical arena that shifts and breathes and punishes, and figure out why nothing we've been told quite adds up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe curse is real, I have no doubt about it. But the longer I survive, the less I believe it's the reason we're here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlmost as if our memories \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eweren't\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stolen by the curse at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlmost as if \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esomeone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e doesn't want us to remember.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the most important question is, when the games are finally unwon…will they have ever even happened?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e***\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA note from the author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis story is something new, something I've never seen done before in this genre. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003eForward\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003e and \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003eBackward\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003e are two halves of the same story, told from opposite ends of time\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. There is no wrong order. You can begin with either book and the story will find you where it needs to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you ask me? I’d say start with Backward, but I'm biased. I wrote it first, and I think there's something beautifully disorienting about falling in love with characters before you understand how they got there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEither way—welcome to the Clockrealm. Here, time always wins…unless someone cheats the deck.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922743713983,"sku":"5bfdc785-49bf-496d-b53e-3b87cc944552","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/a284a2854620efc8d12932c767f5ac81.jpg?v=1785190721","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/backward-the-clockrealm-chronicles","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}