The Clockwork Demon (The Unbound #3)
Andrew Yahodka
Two are already dead. Cardiac arrest. Natural causes. Clean. No one connects the deaths until Irene does — and by then, the thing in the walls has already registered her.
The Clockwork Demon is not a spirit. Not a summons. It is a constructed intelligence woven into the wiring and pipes and conduit of a city older than memory — built to eliminate practitioners who draw too much power from the grid. And Irene just exceeded the threshold.
Time fractures in her apartment. Clocks skip. Rituals stutter. The only way to reset the mechanism is seven days without magic. Seven days of being ordinary. Seven days of withdrawal, shaking hands, flat vision, and the hardest question she’s ever who is she without her practice?
Soran stays for all seven.
He doesn’t explain why. He never does. But he is there — through the burned pasta and the bad dreams and the silence on the fourth day when she says this is what I am without it, and he says one No.
He is there when she draws a line of salt on the floor between them. He is there when he crosses it with one finger and leaves a mark she’s never seen in any grimoire — a mark he doesn’t know how to read, in a language he may have just invented.
She doesn’t clean it.
The Clockwork Demon is the third book in The Unbound, a dark paranormal romance series where the tension between a night magic practitioner and the demon who can’t leave her never resolves — it deepens. Rituals as language. Silence heavier than words. A bond that grows stronger with every book.
For readers who want their romance slow, their magic felt in the body, and their demons precise rather than pretty.
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The 'The Unbound' series
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- Salt and Shadows: A Night Magic Romance by Andrew Yahodka Book #2
- The Clockwork Demon by Andrew Yahodka Book #3
- Midnight Transactions: A Night Magic Romance by Andrew Yahodka Book #4
- The Ozone Mark: A Night Magic Romance by Andrew Yahodka Book #5
- Threshold Work: A Dark Paranormal Romance by Andrew Yahodka Book #7
- The River’s Debt: The water remembers. The debt is due. by Andrew Yahodka Book #8
