A YA Time Travel Experience

Sophia is a fifteen-year old girl from the UK living with her father and brother, Oscar, above her dad’s antique shop. To earn extra money, she does odd jobs for her father—polish antique jewelry or dust an old grandfather clock. 

Unbeknownst to Sophia is the fact that her soul inherited an ancient spell gone wrong, enabling Sophia to touch an old object and travel back in time to its point of origin. One day, while cleaning the Longcase Clock Sophia sees visions of people wearing ancient clothing. Oscar notices his sister’s strange behavior and reacts causing the siblings to travel back in time to Victorian England. 

Hayley Patton begins her YA fantasy time-travel series, Chronicles of the Chiliad, with book 1, Beyond the Longcase Clock. As readers breathlessly follow Sophia’s adventures in many lands and time periods—Qing Dynasty that ruled China during the seventeenth century, southern Italy during the summer of 1798 when Napoleon was beginning his conquest of Europe, and Victorian England—as she works tirelessly to figure out her power, keep her brother safe, and find a way home. 

Along the way, Patton shows readers life in different historical periods as the time travelers try to survive in primitive times with the added pressure to avoid being captured by an evil man who wants to control Sophia’s power.

Beyond the Longcase Clock is a page turner any time travel enthusiast will love. 

About the Author

Hayley Patton grew up in North Wales and studied mathematics at Lancaster University. She wrote her first novel, Beyond the Longcase Clock, while living in Edinburgh. When she’s not writing, Hayley can be found exploring castles, walking in the mountains or planning her next adventure. Her passion for travel seeps into her fiction, and she has a tendency to send her characters to interesting locations just so she can research them. She often daydreams about what places used to look like hundreds and thousands of years ago. Unfortunately for her, she hasn’t figured out how to time-travel. But maybe that’s a good thing. There’s no point telling you where she lives. By the time you read this, she will have left. Find out where she is now at www.hayleypatton.com.

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