The Midnight Clockmaker’s Debt - A Grumpy Sunshine Forced Proximity Romance: A Rival Billionaire Legacy Novel

Dax J. Hollow

Publisher: BookRix

Summary

A Trillion-Dollar Merger. A Broken Antique. And Thirty Nights to Save Everything.Julian Thorne is the "King of the Now". From his sixty-story sanctuary of glass and steel, he controls the digital pulse of London with the swipe of a thumb. But on the verge of the biggest merger in history, a ghost from his grandfather’s past halts his empire. To inherit the future, Julian must repair a shattered 1880s carriage clock—and he has to do it by hand.Elara Vance is the guardian of the past. In her soot-stained workshop in Clerkenwell, time doesn't move at the speed of light—it moves at the speed of the machine. She has no interest in Julian’s billions, but she holds the key to his legacy. Her price for certifying the repair? Thirty nights of apprenticeship. Midnight to dawn. No phones. No ego. Just the weight of a second.The clock is ticking on more than just the merger.As Julian trades his tailored suits for oil-stained aprons, he discovers a century of family secrets hidden beneath the floorboards. He is the man scheduled to demolish Elara's world, but he’s becoming the only one who can save it.From the sterile height of the boardroom to the amber-lit depths of the workshop, The Midnight Clockmaker’s Debt is a slow-burn, forced-proximity romance about a man who thought he could buy the world, only to find himself a captive of a history he couldn't delete.Can two gears from different centuries finally find their mesh, or will the weight of the past crush them both?Why readers will love this Rival Billionaire Legacy novel:Grumpy x Sunshine dynamic: A cold, calculated billionaire meets a fierce, independent artisan.Forced Proximity: Thirty nights in a cramped, intimate workshop where the tension is wound as tight as a mainspring.High-Stakes Corporate Sabotage: A race against time to stop a wrecking ball and expose a corporate heist.Modern Vintage Aesthetic: A rich blend of high-tech corporate power and the soulful, ancient craft of horology."In this shop, Julian, we don't care about the numbers. We care about the swing."

Available since: 02/13/2026.

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