Tiny Elf And The Clockmaker's Echo

Tiny the elf gave up his hearing to save the world-now the silence he traded it for is starting to talk back. A year after the Great Breach nearly tore the North Pole apart, Santa's Workshop has settled into an uneasy peace.

Tiny can no longer hear voices, music, or the whistle of the teakettle-but he can feel something deeper: the resonance humming through wood, metal, and stone. It's how he found Kaelen, a strange, silent girl who woke up alone in a chamber of gears with no memory of who she was, only a warm thread of feeling pulling her north.

When a faltering rhythm calls up from beneath the Workshop floor, Tiny and Kaelen follow it down into tunnels no one has walked in generations-toward a machine that never stopped ticking, and a voice that calls Kaelen "the correction." As the trail leads deeper into the dark, the two of them uncover the truth about the Clockmaker: a being who once tried to save the world by silencing everything broken in it, and who isn't finished trying.

With the pole beginning to falter and an old enemy stirring beneath the ice, Tiny must learn that some doors aren't meant to be sealed shut-they're meant to be listened to. And Kaelen must decide whether the voice inside her wants to fix the world, or unmake it.

Tiny Elf and the Clockmaker's Echo is Book 2 in The Heartline Chronicles , a middle-grade fantasy series about found family, quiet courage, and the kind of magic that hides in ordinary, imperfect things.