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Safe Harbor Queue
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2026
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A woman whispers for help from a locked bathroom at 3:07 a.m. A child cries. The system marks the call high-risk. There are no beds.
You're safe with us now, the intake worker tells her.
Weeks later, a shelter resident is dead, and the evidence points cleanly outward - a violent man, a leaked recording, a failure no one inside could have prevented. The story is efficient. Reassuring. Wrong.
As Mara begins to examine the case, she discovers that protection leaves fingerprints of its own. Not malice, not conspiracy - but patterns, priorities, and decisions made in the name of scale. What looks like care from a distance becomes something colder up close.
The murder can be explained. The system that made it possible cannot.
Safe Harbor Queue is a literary thriller about bureaucratic violence, moral exhaustion, and the quiet terror of institutions that save lives by deciding which ones can be risked.
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