{ "item_title" : "The Boy Hidden in Time", "item_author" : [" Anderson "], "item_description" : "In Oakhaven, time has been frozen at exactly 3:17 PM for forty years. The clocks never advance, the seasons seem trapped beneath an eternal autumn sky, and the townspeople have learned to live inside a world where nothing truly moves forward. For fourteen-year-old Milo Fairchild, however, the stillness has never felt natural. He notices every flaw, every impending accident, and every fragile thing that might break. He has spent his life trying to hold the world together, never imagining that the power to save something could demand the destruction of something far more precious.Everything changes when Milo discovers an extraordinary silver pocket watch hidden inside an abandoned chronometer workshop. Though its main hands remain fixed at 3:17, a tiny mechanism inside continues to move. When a mechanic is about to be crushed beneath a falling engine, Milo instinctively turns the watch's crown backward. The world stops around him, granting him sixty seconds to prevent disaster.But the miracle comes at a terrible price.The watch does not create time. Every borrowed minute must be paid for, and its debt reaches into the deepest parts of Milo's life. Precious memories disappear without warning: the beloved childhood dog he once knew, the familiar rituals he shared with his best friend Kai, and the small details that once made his past feel like home. As his personal history is stripped away, Milo begins to understand that every attempt to rescue the world may erase another piece of the boy he used to be.Meanwhile, strange frost spreads across the valley, shadows move against the light, and a mysterious child-shaped figure emerges from the ashes of a forgotten tragedy. Freya Hawthorne, an observant young artist, begins to uncover evidence of Milo's impossible actions, while the old horologist Sebastian Whitlock carries the terrible secret behind Oakhaven's frozen clocks.Forty years earlier, a devastating fire forced the town's elders to make an impossible choice. Their attempt to escape the consequences of that day trapped the entire valley in a bargain built on stolen seconds, buried guilt, and the memory of a child abandoned in the darkness. Now the fragile machinery holding their secret together is beginning to fail.As the town fractures into temporal chaos, Milo must confront a truth more painful than the loss of his memories: saving everyone cannot mean endlessly preventing every fall, every mistake, or every moment of suffering. Some wounds cannot be repaired by turning back the clock. They can only begin to heal when people finally face what happened.With Kai beside him and the silver watch consuming the last remnants of his past, Milo races toward the great municipal clock tower, where the fate of Oakhaven and the forgotten boy are bound together. To set time moving again, he must risk everything he has left-not to erase the past, but to release a town that has spent four decades refusing to remember it.The Boy Hidden in Time is a haunting fantasy about memory, sacrifice, friendship, and the courage to face painful truths. It asks what remains of us when our memories disappear, whether love can survive without a record of the past, and whether moving forward sometimes requires us to stop trying to save every second.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/290/9798182900058_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.99", "online_price" : "16.99", "our_price" : "16.99", "club_price" : "16.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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