The Midnight Ledger

Mara’s gun is jammed hard against my ribs, her breath hot against my ear as she whispers a death warrant for a crime I haven't even committed yet. She doesn't know that in ten seconds, the clock will hit 12:07, the world will rewind, and she’ll forget exactly how much she wants me dead—and how much I want to keep her pinned against this wall. I am the only man in Brinepoint who remembers the "Ghost Hour," a nightly glitch I use to outmaneuver debt collectors and keep my sister alive, but now I’m trapped in a lethal loop with the one investigator sworn to hunt me down. As we’re forced to trade secrets for survival, the line between hunter and prey blurs into a desperate, bone-deep hunger that threatens to shatter the very rules of time. When the clock resets for the final time, will she be the one to save my life, or the one to pull the trigger that ends us both forever?