When Time shatters time itself—halting ageing and natural death for those in their prime—the Universe begins calling its scattered pieces home. One voice answers more clearly than the rest: Tobias, a Birmingham professor whose heart is tethered to a canal narrowboat and to the man he loves.

As the call grows irresistible, Tobias is recruited by Time and Death to help restore the rhythm Earth was torn from. He and Stuart, an A&E doctor who knows calm is never safety, are swept from quiet water and crowded wards to an underground garden built for endings, where a blank-minded girl named Daisy learns to hold starlight. Golden threads of Music braid from a Phuket nightclub to an Andean summit; eclipses, supernovae, and eight hundred-plus timelines gather. Tobias’s choice sharpens: find a risky alignment that keeps him earthbound and rebuilds the bond between Earth and the Universe—without surrendering himself, Daisy, or the fragile future he and Stuart are building. Witty, tender, and star-crowded, The Curse of Time braids found-family warmth with apocalyptic awe and a quietly fierce queer love. Part of Tobias & Stuart (Book 3 of the trilogy).

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