diff --git a/src/SeatsioClient.php b/src/SeatsioClient.php
index 3b5eea3..fbe6729 100644
--- a/src/SeatsioClient.php
+++ b/src/SeatsioClient.php
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ function ($numRetries) {
             'auth' => [$secretKey, null],
             'http_errors' => false,
             'handler' => $stack,
+            'timeout' => 10,
             'headers' => [
                 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip',
                 'X-Client-Lib' => 'php'
diff --git a/tests/SeatsioExceptionTest.php b/tests/SeatsioExceptionTest.php
index 32e9757..47ea646 100644
--- a/tests/SeatsioExceptionTest.php
+++ b/tests/SeatsioExceptionTest.php
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 namespace Seatsio;
 
+use GuzzleHttp\Client;
+use GuzzleHttp\Handler\MockHandler;
+use GuzzleHttp\Exception\ConnectException;
+use GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack;
 use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request;
 use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response;
 
@@ -23,4 +27,14 @@ public function testCanInstantiateSeatsioExceptionWithoutRequestId()
         self::assertNull($exception->requestId);
         self::assertStringStartsWith("GET http://dummy.uri resulted in a `400 Bad Request` response.", $exception->getMessage());
     }
+
+    public function testTimeoutThrowsSeatsioException()
+    {
+        $this->expectException(SeatsioException::class);
+        $this->expectExceptionMessage("Connection timed out");
+
+        $request = new Request("GET", "http://dummy.uri/charts");
+        $connectException = new ConnectException("Connection timed out", $request);
+        throw SeatsioException::fromException($request, $connectException);
+    }
 }