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First as a librarian, and now as the sole proprietor of Bellweather Clockworks, she coaxes forgotten mechanisms back to life the way other people keep journals — patiently, methodically, one careful turn of the screw at a time. Her uncle Elias taught her the trade before he passed, and his voice still lives in every worn tool and blue-ink notebook he left behind: Let the clock tell you what it needs before you decide what to give it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when Claire Henshaw, curator of the Bellweather Historical Museum, asks Dorothy to examine a rare Whitcomb musical clock from the 1840s, Dorothy expects nothing more than a delicate repair. The Whitcombs were master clockmakers, their pieces prized across the county, and their finest surviving work now sits behind glass in the museum's restoration room. 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Buried in a basement ledger dated 1938, she uncovers an accession record that was quietly altered — three entries changed, a private sale hidden in plain sight. Behind the collection's polished cabinets waits a Whitcomb family secret three generations deep. And woven into the clock's missing melody is a truth someone has spent decades — and now a life — trying to keep from ever chiming again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith her ginger cat Pendulum watching from the counter and Detective Helen Marsh circling the same questions from a different direction, Dorothy follows the mechanism where it leads: through the museum's restoration room, its forgotten archives, and the long shadow the Whitcomb name still casts over the town. She works the way she always has — never forcing a part that doesn't want to move, trusting that the truth is always inside if you know how to look. Because a clock always tells you what's wrong, if you're patient enough to listen. 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