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Return flight
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 10 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
They have no names. No pasts. No footprints in any database.
But someone has been waiting for them for twenty-two years.
On a rain-slicked city street, the body of a young man falls from a skyscraper owned by Harrison & Gold, a powerful biotech corporation. His face is perfectly intact-but it does not exist in any registry. No ID. No fingerprints. No history. He is a ghost.
Detective Frank Marino, a man haunted by a case he closed too soon, recognizes the omens. Beside him is his partner, Vera Morrow, a sharp-eyed detective with no memory of her own childhood-only dreams of a lullaby, the scent of lilacs, and two children calling her name.
Their investigation pulls them into the shadowy remnants of Project Hypnos, a secret experiment that used psychic anchoring and neural nanosensors to keep two newborn subjects alive. Those subjects-a boy and a girl-did not die. They escaped. And for two decades, they have lived on the rooftops, running from the monster inside them, hunted by the corporation that created them.
Leon wakes on unfamiliar roofs with blood on his hands and no memory of the night before. Debbie leaps between buildings like a creature of the wind, driven by an instinct she cannot name. Both are connected to Vera by a bond that should not exist-a bond that has shaped their dreams, their memories, and their very will to survive.
As Vera uncovers the truth hidden in a dusty police archive-photographs of herself as a five-year-old girl beside two glass tanks-she realizes the unthinkable: she is their anchor. Their sister. The mother who kept them alive without knowing it.
Now, on a moonlit rooftop, the three will finally meet. But Harrison & Gold has not forgotten its lost assets. A special unit is closing in. And the only way to save her brothers is to let them go.
Return Flight is a haunting, suspenseful, and deeply emotional literary thriller about the families we find, the promises we keep in the dark, and the love that survives every fall.
If you believe that some bonds cannot be broken-even by time, memory, or death-then Return Flight is for you.
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