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The Forgotten Prodigy: A thriller
Paperback
Series: The Hourglass Reader, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He wakes up in Central Park with no memory, no ID, and an antique watch counting down from sixty.
For one hour, it can make him a genius. After that, it takes something back.
Lucas Stone has no idea who he is.
All he has is a key to a luxury penthouse, a passport with his face on it, and a strange pocket watch that doesn't tell time. It grants it. When Lucas touches the right book, the watch floods his mind with impossible knowledge: medicine, forensics, combat, security systems, art crime, digital infiltration. For sixty minutes, he can become exactly what he needs to survive.
Then the knowledge fades.
And each use may be stripping away whatever pieces of himself are left.
The first clue is a message waiting for him in the penthouse:
Subject 19... come home.
Soon Lucas is being hunted by armed operatives tied to a shadow organization, a brilliant scientist named Dr. Mercer, and a dangerous technology known as Omega-Splice, a process designed to rewrite memory, implant expertise, and reshape human identity itself.
As Lucas searches for answers, he discovers that stolen paintings, hidden polymer data, secret labs, and elite black-market auctions are all part of the same terrifying design. Mercer isn't just experimenting with knowledge. He's building a way to manufacture people.
Experts.
Weapons.
Obedient minds.
With Detective Marianne Reyes at his side, Lucas races from New York penthouses to abandoned clinics, guarded estates, covert labs, and underground vaults, trying to stop Mercer before the final piece of the technology is recovered. But every step closer to the truth forces Lucas to use the watch again, and every use brings him closer to the thing he fears most:
Winning the fight, but losing himself.
The Forgotten Prodigy is a fast-paced science thriller packed with mystery, conspiracy, stolen-art secrets, high-stakes action, and one haunting question:
If your memories were stolen, how far would you go to get them back?
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
- Amnesia-driven mysteries
- High-concept technology thrillers
- Secret experiments and shadow organizations
- Stolen-art conspiracies
- Fast-paced action with psychological stakes
- A hero fighting to reclaim his identity
Lucas Stone was never supposed to escape.
Now he has one hour at a time to bring the truth into the light.
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