num_pages: 413
description: Once Londons top thief Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his skills for a nation at war. But not until he rescues a clockmakers daughter from a mugging does he begin to wonder what his future might hold.Evelina Manning has constantly fought for independence but she certainly never meant for it to inspire her fianc to end the engagement and enlist in the army. When the intriguing man who saved her returns to the Manning residence to study clockwork repair with her father she cant help being interested. But she soon learns that nothing with Barclay Pearce is as simple as it seems.As 1915 England plunges ever deeper into war the work of an ingenious clockmaker may give England an unbeatable military edgeand Germany realizes it as well. Evelinas father soon finds his whole family in dangerand it may just take a reformed thief to steal the time they need to escape it.
language: English
title: An Hour Unspent
publisher: Bethany House Publishers