The Cat That Time Built: A Gothic Horror of Grief and Clockwork

A grieving clockmaker wanted his daughter back. The creature he built only wants to keep him safe.In a plague-stricken London workshop, a father places his dead daughter's locket inside a cat of brass and velvet. He winds the key three times, hoping Eleanor will return.Something awakens. It is not Eleanor.The Cat follows its maker, curls against his chest, and purrs as his fever falls. It believes it is helping. It does not understand that the warmth keeping it alive is being taken from him.Across more than a century, the Cat passes through hands that cherish it, exploit it, and seek to understand its machinery. A young chimney sweep named Nell offers something different: kindness without a price. But as their attachment deepens, the Cat begins to recognize what its company costs her.It wants to stay. It wants her to live.From a locked basement to the London sewers and a scientist's laboratory, the Cat must learn whether it can become more than the hunger that sustains it-and what it means to love someone enough to let go.Told through the evolving perceptions of its clockwork protagonist, The Cat That Time Built is a Gothic novel of grief, consciousness, and the terrible things love will build to keep from losing someone.