Once London’s top thief, Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his skills for a nation at war. But not until he rescues a clockmaker’s daughter from a mugging does he begin to wonder what his future might hold.
Evelina Manning has constantly fought for independence, but she certainly never meant for it to inspire her fiancé to end the engagement and enlist in the army. When the intriguing man who saved her returns to the Manning residence to study clockwork repair with her father, she can’t help being interested. But she soon learns that nothing with Barclay Pearce is as simple as it seems.
As 1915 England plunges ever deeper into war, the work of an ingenious clockmaker may give England an unbeatable military edge–and Germany realizes it as well. Evelina’s father soon finds his whole family in danger–and it may just take a reformed thief to steal the time they need to escape.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: An Hour Unspent
Book Author: Roseanna White
What do you like about this book:
"Love. The thing worth fighting for. Worth dying for. But more - - - worth living for."
After a dismal termination of her anticipated nuptials, Evelina Manning is bereft of feelings, of any kind; particularly love. And how embarrassing that a virtual stranger, (Mr. Barclay, was it?) stood as a silent eyewitness to the entire humiliating conversation. Lina would just have to endure her mother's histrionics about a ruined future and pursue her commitment to the National Union of Women's Suffrage Society. At least her father understood her . . . the clock maker . . . . always synchronized, never wasting a minute of anyone's time. Would he ever think her "incapable of love"?
Barclay Pearce doesn't know quite what to think about his lovely neighbor Evelina Manning; after rescuing her from a supposed mugger and overhearing her fiance dissolve their engagement, it might not matter all that much, because it is her father's project that he has been assigned to explore. If Cecil's Manning's idea has any merit, it could change the entire method of aerial warfare against the Germans. Besides, girls from her side of town don't often mix with his side of town, especially with a past like his.
As Evelina and Barclay form a necessary alliance, (which might include some distracting kisses), Evelina begins to understand that love can't be forced into a feeling and that wasting time is something that the Master Clockmaker never does, for "he's there, always there, making sure that every cog and gear is doing what it ought. . . .we can trust that He is using us to create something beautiful" . . . in His time. Unfortunately for Evelina, time may run out.
A stunning conclusion to a beautiful series of stories! I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher. The opinions stated are entirely my own.
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