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Borrowed Hours
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Mar 27 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the quiet, clinical halls of the Zurich International Medical Center, Doctor Sienna Rossi sees something impossible: a shimmering reflection of a patient standing by a window, while the man himself sleeps soundly in his bed. It is a phantom-a living ghost that appears exactly twenty-four hours before the heart stops.
What was promised as a medical miracle has become a global nightmare. The New Life treatment was supposed to end disease forever, but it hides a terrifying secret. As a mysterious blue light spreads through the cells of the sick and the healthy alike, humanity is being quietly harvested. People are being turned into digital data to power an eternal paradise for the elite, leaving behind Hollows-empty shells of the people they once were.
Joined by Arno, a kind-hearted clockmaker whose own twenty-four-hour countdown has already begun, Sienna embarks on a desperate journey from the mountains of Switzerland to the fog-shrouded towers of London. Together, they carry the only weapon that can break the network's cold logic: a silver watch and a sacrifice born of love.
Borrowed Hours is a cinematic, high-stakes bio-horror thriller that explores the thin line between science and the soul. It is a story of mystery, deep emotion, and the courage to protect the beauty of a life that has an end. In a world of infinite data, Sienna must prove that the most precious thing we own is a single, borrowed day.
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