Ezekiel Hargrove has spent thirty years as the town's quiet clockmaker, repairing timepieces no one else can fix—until the day one begins running backward. Haunted by visions he cannot explain and whispers from a past he buried, Zeke discovers that every clock he has ever touched holds a fragment of memory belonging to the dead. As strange occurrences grip the fog-shrouded coastal town of Havenbrook, he must unravel the mystery of his own forgotten childhood: a fire, a missing sister, and a promise made at midnight. Some secrets refuse to stay wound. Some doors, once opened, change everything.