The Bellkeeper's Daughter

The bells of Anveth do not tell time. They hold it. Sera Anveth-Bell keeps the ninth hour, and her bell has been silent for a year — and for a year, her hour has spent every night in the sleep-play, alone with a man she has never met. When Sera finally rings the ninth bell, Avan walks out of her dream and into her city: furious, out of his century, casting two shadows and carrying an hour her family lost. To keep him real, Sera must re-ring every bell in Anveth in an order no living bellkeeper has dared. The council forbids it. The city will forget itself if she fails. And Avan, the dream made man, may not survive being remembered. A sweeping epic romance of bells, hours, and two people choosing to stay awake.