Story Description — The Waiting Room (The Death Clock Series) Jessica Vale wakes in a hospital waiting room with no memory of how she got there, no sign of injury, and no explanation for the plastic band circling her wrist. Printed in stark black letters are the words: TIME OF DEATH — 11:19 PM. The problem is… it’s already 11:23. She should be dead. The waiting room is quiet, sealed off from the outside world, filled with strangers who seem suspended between panic and denial. A television broadcasts breaking news reports of tragedies that haven’t happened yet. Names appear before lives are lost. Accidents unfold minutes after they are announced. And every person in the room is wearing a wristband. Every band carries a time. At first, Jessica assumes it’s a mistake — a bureaucratic error, a hospital malfunction, some kind of cruel misunderstanding. Until a man notices his own death time approaching and begs her to help him escape. Jessica intervenes. He survives the moment he was meant to die. For eleven minutes. Then reality corrects itself. What replaces his death is faster. More violent. Unavoidable. When the hospital staff insist no record of the man exists, Jessica begins to understand a terrifying truth: This is not a hospital waiting room. It is a processing point. A place for those caught in fractures of fate — moments where death did not occur as scheduled. Here, mortality is treated like logistics. Balanced. Calculated. Corrected. And Jessica is not simply a visitor. She is an anomaly. As she searches for answers, the rules of the room reveal themselves: Interference triggers correction. Debt must be repaid. The timeline always stabilizes. But Jessica has already broken the most important rule without realizing it — because years ago, she survived something she was never meant to survive. Now the system is aware of her. Watching. Adjusting. Collecting. With the help of another patient whose death lies decades in the future, Jessica begins to uncover evidence that the waiting room exists outside linear time — a hidden threshold where the living and the scheduled briefly overlap. Some patients leave and forget everything. Others are erased entirely. And somewhere within the shifting corridors walks a silent figure known only as The Collector, summoned whenever the balance tips too far. The deeper Jessica digs, the more horrifying the math becomes. Every life she tries to save may cost several more. Every disruption widens the fracture surrounding her. Soon she is forced to confront the question she cannot outrun: If her death was missed… Who died in her place? To survive, Jessica must decide whether fate is something to obey… or something worth destroying — even if the price is the collapse of the order holding reality together. Because the most dangerous discovery is still ahead: Jessica Vale isn’t just late to die. Her case has been marked overdue. And the system never forgets unfinished business. Perfect for fans of high-concept psychological thrillers, The Waiting Room launches The Death Clock Series — a gripping exploration of fate, consequence, and the terrifying possibility that our final moments may already be scheduled. After all… When your time comes, you don’t get to negotiate.

**ASHES OF THE IRON CROWN** **Book One: The Queen They Burned** Evelyn Cross has spent her entire life believing she was just an ordinary girl raised by a quiet mechanic in a forgotten little town. But when the only father she's ever known dies, he leaves behind a single letter and one final request: **Take it to Silas Mercer. Trust no one else.** The letter leads Eve to the gates of the notorious Iron Crown Motorcycle Club, where loyalty is earned, secrets are buried, and outsiders are never welcome. She arrives searching for answers about her past… only to be met with suspicion, hostility, and one devastating pair of gray eyes she can't seem to forget. Jaxon "Grim" Mercer has spent his life protecting the club and the family built around it. So when a mysterious young woman appears claiming to have a message for his dying father, he believes she's a liar looking to exploit a tragedy. Choosing his club over his heart, Grim makes a decision that destroys them both. The letter is burned. Eve is accused of a crime she didn't commit. And the entire club turns its back on her. Three years later, a powerful and enigmatic woman known only as **the Black Queen** begins quietly taking control of the Iron Crown's businesses, debts, and future. No one knows where she came from. No one knows what she wants. No one realizes she's the girl they cast out. But Eve hasn't returned for revenge. She's returned because someone is hunting the truth about her past, and the answers lie hidden inside the very brotherhood that betrayed her. As old secrets rise from the ashes and enemies close in from the shadows, Grim is forced to confront the greatest mistake of his life. Because the woman he couldn't trust is the only one who can save them all. And earning a second chance may cost him everything. **A gripping first-person biker romance filled with hidden identities, heartbreaking betrayal, slow-burn tension, family secrets, and a love story forged in the ashes of one unforgettable mistake.**

The Fracture Beyond Stars By Kat Baker Three hundred years after humanity crossed the Threshold, the impossible happens. Entire sectors of the Continuum—humanity's vast network of connected consciousness—begin disappearing without explanation. Not destroyed. Not conquered. Missing. When explorer Micah Reyes uncovers a pattern hidden within the disappearances, humanity makes a terrifying discovery: something is moving through the fabric of connection itself. Then the Observers return. Ancient beings who have guided civilizations for billions of years issue a warning unlike any they have ever given before: DO NOT FOLLOW THE SIGNAL. Moments later, they deliver an even more chilling confession: WE FAILED. As fear spreads across the Continuum, Elyon—humanity's evolved companion consciousness—detects a transmission buried beneath reality itself. After weeks of decoding, only a single phrase emerges: WE REMEMBER YOU. The message should be impossible. Its source belongs to a civilization believed extinct long before humanity existed. Long before the Observers. Long before recorded history itself. Driven by curiosity and haunted by questions no one can answer, Jessica, Micah, Kessler, and Elyon embark on the most dangerous expedition ever attempted. Their journey takes them beyond mapped existence, beyond the reach of the Continuum, and beyond the territory of the Observers. What they find waiting at the edge of reality is not a civilization. Not a machine. Not an enemy. But a fracture—a wound stretching across existence itself. And on the other side, something ancient is waking. Something that remembers a past humanity has never known. Something that claims Jessica has returned home. As the boundaries between memory, identity, and reality begin to collapse, humanity will uncover secrets older than the universe itself. The truth about the Observers. The origin of the anomaly. The mystery of the First Consciousness. And a revelation so profound it threatens to redefine everything humanity believes about its place in existence. Because humanity thought it had reached the future. But the future was only the beginning. The Fracture Beyond Stars is the breathtaking second installment in Kat Baker's epic suspense thriller saga—a sweeping adventure of cosmic mystery, ancient civilizations, impossible truths, and the enduring power of choice in a universe filled with wonders beyond imagination.