Spring approaches, and with it, reckoning.
A decades-old death ruled an accident resurfaces when a damaged clock is returned to Clara’s workshop. The lie attached to it is faint but persistent, and it points back to the generation that taught Hinterwald how to stay quiet.
Clara is no longer an accidental sleuth. She is the keeper of a system that demands choices. Who deserves the truth. Who cannot survive it.
As the town edges toward exposure, Clara must decide whether to remain the balance, or finally break it.