Elle Strauss

Elle Strauss writes time-travel fiction for younger readers, combining family relationships with coming-of-age dilemmas. Clockwork Crazy belongs to her Clockwise sequence, a series that begins with Casey Donovan unexpectedly moving through time and expands across connected characters and viewpoints. Series guides place the book after Clockwise, Clockwiser, Like Clockwork, Clocked, and Counter Clockwise, while Strauss identifies the sequence among her published work. The title continues a pattern of clock-based names that reflects the stories’ central speculative device. Strauss has also published historical and contemporary fiction, sometimes under the name Lee Strauss, giving her bibliography a range beyond this particular fantasy series. Clockwork Crazy is best understood as a later instalment rather than a standalone introduction, since its place depends on relationships and events established across the earlier books. Its series context shows Strauss using a familiar science-fiction premise to explore how disrupted chronology affects loyalty, choice, and the consequences of earlier decisions.