Description

Every night, Corven’s networked clocks erase the same forty minutes. The city insists nothing is missing—until Ambulance Fourteen receives a call timestamped from inside the gap and paramedic Maren Coil finds a patient wearing her own unmistakable bandage.

With her quick-witted partner Caro Denn, dispatcher Sumi Orrel, and tenant organizer Nell Arca, Maren uncovers a municipal program using the blank interval to remove residents who stand in the way of redevelopment. To bring everyone home, the team must enter the hidden control station, resist a system designed to interrupt recall, and turn the city’s emergency network against its owners. A complete compact adult thriller with episode-like pacing, an ensemble cast, a resolved central case, and future-case potential.