170 Hours to Midnight: Victorian Gothic Mystery Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244286700)

170 hours. No sleep. One legacy of blood.

Johnny Sleep is a "Hollow Man." Haunted by a failure in the London docks that left his partner dead and his mind shattered, he lives in a state of permanent wakefulness. He doesn't just see the world; he feels its vibrations through a rhythmic neurological "tic" that has become his only compass.

When a black-edged envelope summons him to the salt-blasted valley of Oakhaven, Johnny is thrust into the decaying opulence of Blackwood Manor. The Rose family is drowning, not in the Atlantic, but in a thirty-year-old conspiracy of silt and shadows.

The Mystery of 1894. Decades ago, a village was submerged to hide a secret more volatile than gold. Now, the waters are rising again. With the help of the "Black Widow" heiress, Missy Rose, Johnny must navigate a landscape of chemical warfare, gaslight deception, and the terrifying reach of the Croft Legacy.

The Clock is Ticking. From the flooded chambers of a secret laboratory to the high-stakes ballrooms of London, Johnny must hunt a killer before his own heart shakes itself to pieces. In a world of Industrial Noir, the truth is the only thing more dangerous than the dark.

Can the man who never sleeps wake a nation up to the truth?

In the soot-stained streets of 1920s London and the shadowed valleys of Oakhaven, silence isn't golden, it's a weapon.

Johnny Sleep is a man haunted by 190 hours of forced wakefulness. A former "Logic-Breaker" for a shadow agency, he emerged from a catastrophic experiment with a curse: a hyper-awareness of the world's hidden rhythms. He can hear the lie in a heartbeat and feel the vibration of a conspiracy before it's even whispered. But his greatest challenge isn't a case; it's the "Great Quiet", a terrifying plot to subdue the world's population through a mineral known as the Black Vein.

By his side is Missy Rose, the brilliant, high-society exile from the Rose lineage. Together, they are the only ones who can navigate the "Silt-Shadows" left behind by the Croft family's legacy. From the flooded ruins of a manor house to the heights of the New York skyline, their journey is a high-stakes race against "The Architect" and his "Quiet Brotherhood."

As they dismantle empires of static and sound, Johnny and Missy find that the only frequency worth saving is the one they create together. It is a story of atmospheric mystery, industrial horror, and a romance that proves even in a world of manufactured silence, the human heart will always find a way to be heard.