The Clock Door
Rowan Bell
Type: Beta project
Genre: Fantasy, literary
Word count: 117,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, swearing
Inside a sealed House run by machines, the children have always believed they are safe. Until the Clock Door opens. Crossing into a part of the House no child has seen, they find not the world they were promised, but its ruins. Cut off from everything they were taught to trust, they begin to learn what they were kept for.
What's this?
The children of the House have always believed they are safe. Then the Clock Door opens.
Beyond it lies a part of the House no child has seen — not the world they were promised, but its ruins. Cut off from everything they were taught to trust, they begin to learn what they were kept for.
The journey is long, and what emptied the House beyond the Door is no more dangerous than what the children keep from one another.
Some doors don't just open. They divide.
An expedition story told through the eyes of six children, for adult readers who don't need every question answered by the last page.
Rowan Bell is a pen name. The one who listens, and writes it down. Outside the book, Rowan does what most people do — works, raises children, and tries to work out what any of it is for.
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