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Thirteen Days Too Late
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ema Larsen built Echo - a company designed to catch what doctors miss, the early signals a body sends out long before anyone thinks to listen. Weeks before the funding decision that will determine whether it survives, she collapses in her own boardroom.
The doctors call it stress. Ema knows better. She's been hiding a year of symptoms from everyone who loves her, because telling the truth could cost her the company she and Sam built entirely together - the same company that exists specifically so nobody's warning signs go unnoticed again.
Nobody believed in that mission before it had any proof behind it, except David. Sam's cousin, the first person who ever handed over his own savings for a device that was still mostly hope. He wears the prototype everywhere he goes. He trusts it completely.
That trust is about to cost him everything.
Because the same week Ema is finally forced to face what she's been hiding, David's own data quietly flags a warning nobody has time left to review. Thirteen days pass before anyone looks. By then, it's already too late.
What follows isn't a story about a woman saved by her own invention. It's about what her silence costs the people who trusted her most - and whether finishing what you started is still worth it once it's already cost you everything you built it to protect.
THIRTEEN DAYS TOO LATE is an upmarket novel about the gap between having the right instrument and actually being looked at - and about a grief that doesn't cancel out hope, but has to learn, slowly, to sit in the same room with it.
Perfect for readers of THE STARTUP WIFE and ME BEFORE YOU.
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