From the series: Quinine

Tick Tock Goddess Clock: A Quinine Adventure

About

Goddess‑born and battle‑scarred, Quinine has never asked for destiny — but destiny has found him.

 After surviving the deadly ascent of the Stairway of Time, he discovers Cark, a living Time Shard whose frantic calculations warn of a coming collapse. Time is unraveling, and only one person can complete the equation — someone Cark calls Her.

A portal hurls them into the foothills of the Knuckle Mountains, where two unlikely allies await: Bacifer, a bubble‑speaking Proximal inventor with a prototype wheeler, and Larue, a fierce Time Speller whose connection to the Essentia runs deeper than Quinine ever imagined.

Together, they have seven days — one cycle before the next Dark Empty — to reach the tip of the Middle Finger and correct Time itself. But ancient forces are converging, glitter corruption spreads like a sickness, and the truth behind Cark’s search for Her carries a cost none of them are ready to face.

Some journeys save the world.

Some journeys reshape it.

This one demands both.