The City of Stolen Evenings

Every evening, the city loses ten minutes.No one remembers what happens inside them.When the Lantern and Leaf carries Mara Vale to Calder's Reach, she finds a city ruled by clocks.Clock towers mark every square. Shopkeepers count the minutes until sunset. And every evening, for exactly ten minutes, the city simply disappears from its own memory.Food burns unattended.People wake in places they do not remember walking to.Doors open by themselves.And three people have vanished without a trace.One of them is a twelve-year-old girl.For thirty-two nights, the citizens of Calder's Reach have learned not to ask what happens between sunset and darkness.Mara intends to ask anyway.Then Rowan Grey's impossible map reveals the truth.The missing minutes have not vanished.They have been collecting.Hidden beside the ordinary city is the Twilight Interval-a golden reflection of Calder's Reach built from stolen evenings, abandoned choices, forgotten actions, and consequences no one wanted to remember.And the missing people may still be trapped inside.To bring them home, Mara and Rowan must cross into a place where time has rules of its own.Every lost minute has been recorded.Every forgotten choice still exists.And someone has been using those ten stolen minutes to hide far more than disappearances.Because the Twilight Interval remembers everything Calder's Reach chose to forget.Including secrets about the Lantern and Leaf itself.As the truth behind the wandering bookshop finally begins to surface, Mara must confront the oldest rules that govern its journeys-and decide whether the purpose she inherited must become the future she chooses.Because this time, solving the mystery may not be enough.Mara may have to change the story that brought the Lantern and Leaf into existence.The City of Stolen Evenings is the third and final book in The Wandering Bookshop Mysteries, a complete cozy fantasy mystery trilogy filled with magical books, impossible roads, found family, atmospheric secrets, clean slow-burn romance, forgotten choices, and one raven with uncompromising opinions about biscuits.Some places steal memories. Calder's Reach steals the time in which they were made.