Some doors are locked for a reason.
For Marcy Storae, safety is found in the rhythmic ticking of gears. An apprentice at the White Rabbit Clock Repair Shop, she has spent three years cultivating a life that is small, silent, and strictly mapped out.
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs vanish, leaving the shop silent and the kettle cold, Marcy makes a choice that shatters her carefully constructed world.

Driven by a curiosity she can no longer suppress, she discovers a storeroom of impossible objects, a mysterious door, and a silver key that calls to her. When she turns it in the lock, she steps through the fabric of reality into Laverna, a realm of lethal beauty and terrifying magic.on realizes that stumbling into Laverna wasn't an accident. She has been summoned. And in a world where memories are currency and flowers hunger for blood, the only way home might be more than she bargained for.