Time Enough to Stay: A Christian Time-Travel Romance

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 small Iowa courthouse, she expects a difficult repair and a few weeks of hard work.

She gets something else entirely.

The clock has been silent for more than a century. Its maker is nearly forgotten. And when Delia finally brings the beautiful old movement back to life, she discovers that its ticking has consequences she could never have imagined.

On the other side of the clock is Kirby, Iowa, in 1893—a town fighting to protect its future, a community on the brink of losing everything, and a clockmaker named Otto Kreuzer who needs someone to carry on the work he can no longer do alone.

Then there is Gideon Tate, the town’s deputy sheriff.

Gideon is carrying burdens of his own: a family marked by old shame, a brother in trouble, a town he may soon have to leave behind, and a future he has never allowed himself to want.

Delia cannot tell him where she comes from.

She cannot explain why she disappears.

And the closer they grow, the harder it becomes to keep the truth between them.

Because every time the clock is wound, Delia has only eight days before the door closes again.

As Kirby’s troubles deepen and the clock’s secret becomes impossible to ignore, Delia must decide what she is willing to leave behind—and whether a woman can ever truly belong to two different times.

A tender, atmospheric Christian time-travel romance about a woman who kept the time, a man who kept his word, and a God who keeps both.