Once London’s top thief, Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his abilities for a nation at war. However, not until he rescues a clockmaker’s daughter from a mugging will he start to question what his upcoming might hold. Evelina Manning offers continuously fought for self-reliance, but she certainly hardly ever meant for it to inspire her fiance to get rid of the engagement and enlist in the military. When the intriguing man who kept her returns to the Manning residence to study clockwork fix with her father, she can’t help becoming interested. But she quickly learns that nothing at all with Barclay Pearce is really as simple as it seems. As 1915 England plunges ever deeper into battle, the task of a nifty little clockmaker can provide Britain an unbeatable armed forces edge–and Germany realizes it as well. Evelina’s father soon finds his entire family in danger–and it may just take a reformed thief to steal the time they need to escape.