"She stood in the doorway, assessing the mess; the bobbed her head, shrugged, and stepped over a nested stack of vintage oil cans that Chuck kept meaning to relocate."

Why yes, I am sitting next to @KevinHearne as I post!

"It takes a special class of sharper to differentiate between two truths."

He gave her a lopsided grin, making his dimples flash. "Let a man have some mystery, what?"

The clock's hands twitched under her fingers, so she gripped them until the ticking stopped. ... She felt like the murderess of time."

Oh my goodness. This book.