Century

Mercy and Charity live a life so fixed that no day ever differs from the one before. Their household runs on inverted hours: they are awake through the night and asleep by daylight. Their widowed father appears only now and then, and their home seems locked in a winter that never ends.

The pattern breaks when Mercy wakes to find a snowdrop lying on her pillow, a small promise that spring might come and that her future could look different. A chance encounter with the enigmatic Claudius pushes her to doubt everything she has accepted, especially what really happened to her mother. Piece by piece, Mercy follows her parents' history backward in time, watching her younger self as a silent observer of dramatic events in which Claudius plays a major role. Her own world can only start to change once she understands the whole truth.