He gave another woman the same promise he gave her.
Tova Amsler finds it inside a watch her fiancé asks her to repair: an inscription identical to the one hidden in her own.By nightfall, she has found the rest of his secrets. By morning, she is leaving the ring, the keys, and the life he believes she cannot afford to lose.
What she takes with her is a watchmaker’s skill—and the determination to put her own name on her work.
In a fading Massachusetts arcade, Tova reopens her late father’s shop. Every bill is hers now. So is every customer who comes back. Rebuilding a life takes more than courage; it takes showing up, one difficult morning at a time.
Then a quiet man arrives with a pocket watch that has been stopped for twenty-two years.
Jonas is told the repair will take months and cost far more than the watch is worth. He pulls up a chair. And as the days pass, the man by her window becomes the part of the day she looks forward to most.
But Jonas has a powerful life he has not told her about. And Tova knows too well how easily a man’s kindness can become a claim on her future.
She can mend a broken watch. Trusting her heart to someone else will take a different kind of courage.
The Time He Never Kept is a complete standalone contemporary romance about starting over, claiming the life you deserve, and finding a love worth choosing—with tender chemistry and a deeply satisfying happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
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