The whole world trusts Claire Foster’s hands. No one has wanted the rest of her in twenty years.

A brilliant, bone-tired heart surgeon, Claire has spent her life being needed and never once being known. So when an old promise to her late grandmother sends her north at Christmas — to a snowbound Minnesota town and the plain white church her own...

Some clocks keep time. This one opens a door.

Delia Warrick knows how to fix things.

Tower clocks, broken movements, worn gears—give her an old machine and enough time, and she can usually bring it back to life. But Delia has never been nearly as good at fixing the things that matter most.

When she is hired to restore a forgotten clock in a...