Seventeen Seconds to Midnight

An Addictive Psychological Suspense Novel of a Ransom Demand, an Unreliable Narrator, a Faked Death, and the Enemy Closer Than She KnowsBy Daniel Holloway

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The bomb was built from her own design. The girl strapped to it is her daughter. Lena Voss hasn't touched a bomb suit in five years. Once the FBI's most promising ordnance disposal tech, she walked away after a training exercise she designed killed a recruit — a death she covered up, then fled. Now she teaches high school chemistry in a quiet Pennsylvania town, medicating her panic attacks with routine and hoping the past stays buried. It doesn't. At 11:43 PM, her phone rings. The voice belongs to Marcus Webb — the brilliant nuclear engineer she trained through the Bureau's counterterrorism program. The same man the FBI just fired and publicly humiliated after a whistleblower exposed falsified safety data at his plant. Marcus is in her house. He's wired her fourteen-year-old daughter, Chloe, to a device so sophisticated the Bureau's robotics division couldn't touch it remotely. The countdown is running. He wants one thing: Lena on camera, confessing what really happened the night a young recruit died and a family never got the truth. He tells her the bomb disarms the moment she speaks. He tells her she has until midnight. But Lena recognizes this device. The cascading fail-safes. The twin pressure plates. The dirty core. It's her design — an experimental prototype she sketched years ago and never filed. A design that should not exist anywhere. A design that disappeared from her locker two weeks before the accident she covered up. Marcus didn't build this alone. As Lena works the device with shaking hands and her daughter's terrified eyes locked on hers, the trap reveals its true shape. The components are military-grade. The isotope is weapons-refined. And the people watching this live stream never intended for either of them to walk out. She has seventeen seconds to decide what she's willing to sacrifice. Her past. Her truth. Her daughter. Herself. And the one question no one's asking: who handed Marcus her design? Seventeen Seconds to Midnight is a relentless and pulse-shredding psychological thriller about guilt, cover-ups, a mother's impossible choice, and the cost of a lie told to survive. Perfect for readers who love twist-ending thrillers, unreliable narrator suspense, edge-of-seat domestic crime, bomb-disposal tension, and fans of Seraphina Nova Glass and Megan Lally. A relentless, twist-packed standalone thriller.

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