THE CLOCKMAKER OF WREN’S HOLLOW (Hawthorn Arc Novels #6)

In Wren’s Hollow, time doesn’t move the way it should.

The clock tower in the center of town has been frozen for decades, its silent face a quiet symbol of everything the town has learned to work around rather than repair. For Harper Caldwell, the newly elected mayor, the broken clock is more than a civic problem—it’s a reminder of how easily communities settle into stillness when progress feels too complicated to attempt.

There is only one person who knows how to bring the clock back to life.

Silas Fenn is a clockmaker who prefers mechanisms to people and precision to attention. His family name is etched into the clock’s gears—and into a painful chapter of the town’s history he has spent years avoiding. Fixing the tower would mean reopening old wounds, risking public failure, and being seen in ways he has carefully learned to avoid.

When circumstance forces Harper and Silas into reluctant collaboration, the work becomes something quieter—and deeper—than either of them expects. Mornings turn into routine. Silence becomes shared. Trust grows not through grand gestures, but through patience, competence, and learning how to steady one another when anxiety takes hold.

But as the clock begins to move again, so do rumors. Doubt creeps in. Old narratives resurface. And both Harper and Silas must decide whether stepping back is safer than showing up.

The Clockmaker of Wren’s Hollow is a tender, slow-burn romance about restoration—of towns, of legacies, and of the parts of ourselves we hide when the world feels too loud. It is a story about anxiety as a condition, not a flaw, and about love not as perfect synchronization, but as learning to keep time together.

Because sometimes, moving forward doesn’t require fixing everything.

Just choosing what still matters.