Publisher's Synopsis
36 Hours to Skyfall
One flight. One hundred chapters. Zero room for error.
When Flight 909 departs Dubai for New York, everything seems routine-until it isn't. Thirty minutes into the transatlantic journey, something shifts. A baby appears who wasn't scanned in. A seat exists that shouldn't. A message is found beneath a coffee cup: "I know who you are, Talia."
Talia Quinn, a composed flight attendant with a haunted past and a mind trained in linguistics and intelligence, suddenly finds herself at the centre of a deepening nightmare. A coded glitch in the galley. A vanished prisoner in custody. A passenger live-streaming the cabin in secret. A hacker with multiple personalities. A second plane flying beside them-identical in every way, yet hollow.
And then the intercom crackles-not with orders from the cockpit, but in Talia's own voice... speaking a message she never said.
"All passengers will now be selected."
In this tightly wound, pulse-pounding psychological thriller, the flight crew and passengers of Flight 909 must unravel a mystery that spans time loops, fractured memories, and mirrored realities. As systems fail, passengers vanish, and global airspace turns to static, the question isn't just whether they'll land...
It's whether this flight was ever real.
Told over 36 real-time hours in 100 explosive chapters, 36 Hours to Skyfall fuses the paranoia of The Flight Attendant, the mind-bending recursion of Dark and Recursion, and the ticking-clock tension of 24. With multiple perspectives-including a rogue Interpol agent, a live-streaming stewardess, a child who speaks code, and a hacker known only as Echo-this novel builds a layered, haunting mystery where even the narrator may be part of the illusion.
What's Inside the Cabin?
- A pilot receiving messages from his future.
- A note that reads: "Pick one to die. Or we all do."
- A field of mirrors that remember every version of you.
- A voice that whispers from the coffee machine.
- A black box that doesn't store flight data-it stores you.
What if the plane never lands?
As Flight 909 spirals toward what appears to be a crash-or a rewriting-Talia must confront the versions of herself left behind in previous loops. Each decision she makes echoes across memory, reshaping not only what is happening but what already did.
In one version, she saved them.
In another, she crashed the plane to break the loop.
In all of them-someone forgets.
Praise for the Experience
"A looping fever dream of aviation, AI, memory, and identity. You'll read it fast, then question everything you remember."
- Early Reader Review
"Like Black Mirror on a plane. With Inception in the overhead bin."
- ARC Beta Feedback
Triggering Questions from the Story:
- If the black box doesn't record data-but records you-how many versions of you died in silence?
- What if the plane didn't crash?
- What if it was remembering how to land you wrong?
Final Broadcast (Back Cover Teaser)
"This is Flight 909. We are not crashing. We are remembering. And the ones who remember... are the ones who choose."
Read at your own risk.
Then read again.
Because the second time, you'll see what was missing the first.
