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The Debt of Time: A Legal Thriller
Paperback
Series: The Innocence Ledger, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirty-three years ago, the state stole a man's life with a lie. Now, one lawyer has twenty-eight days to expose the truth-before the executioner collects the debt.
Thomas Crane is a man defined by safety. A beige estate lawyer who deals in mineral rights and probate, he has spent twenty years building a fortress of predictability to keep the chaos of the world at bay. He straps his briefcase into the passenger seat. He never takes risks.
But Thomas's safe world shatters during a sleepless night, while watching a retrospective on the infamous Garage Killer case.
Isaiah Perkins has spent three decades on Death Row for a double homicide he swears he didn't commit. The prosecution's case was ironclad, built on a digital keypad log that placed Perkins at the scene at exactly 4:15 PM.
But Thomas hears something in the background of the old surveillance footage: the distinctive clack-whoosh of the Express train .
Thomas grew up on those tracks. He knows the 1992 schedule by heart. And he knows one terrifying fact: The Express didn't run at 4:15 .
Driven by an obsession he can't explain, Thomas peels back the layers of the conviction and uncovers a conspiracy buried in the archives of a utility commission: a city-wide blackout that rendered the digital lock dead, and a faded invoice for a backup battery with a handwritten note that reads Job Incomplete.
The timestamp was a fabrication. The alibi was real. The man is innocent.
Now, with the Governor-the former prosecutor who built his career on this conviction-poised to sign the death warrant, Thomas must step out of his beige life and into the line of fire. Facing a corrupt detective who will destroy anyone to protect the verdict and a political machine that demands a body, Thomas risks his marriage, his career, and his sanity to save a stranger.
Justice was delayed. But the debt of time has finally come due.
Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Scott Turow, The Debt of Time is a meticulous, heart-pounding legal thriller about the high price of truth.
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