Countdown

From Tokyo to Toronto, Moscow to Madrid, every clock began ticking down in perfect unison. No origin. No source. No explanation. Just numbers. Ticking. Falling. The atomic clock at NIST in Colorado—the world’s most precise timekeeper—displayed the same countdown as a broken wristwatch in Nairobi. Devices not even connected to the internet synced as if touched by an unseen force. Governments scrambled. Panic ignited. And the world held its breath. FBI agent Ron Parker didn’t believe in coincidences. He had spent his life chasing down things no one else wanted to believe: classified experiments, untraceable signals, secret alliances between intelligence agencies and off-the-books tech corporations. But even he wasn’t prepared for this. "Time was never yours to keep." Now, as the countdown nears zero, Parker must unravel a mystery that spans dimensions, defies logic, and threatens to erase everything humanity thinks it knows. Because some clocks don’t measure time. They measure fate.