Time is Ticking

She knows a crime has been committed.
She knows she's not allowed to stop it.

Dr. Eliza Ward is a therapist who used to be a detective-a life she left behind after a case where timing, procedure, and restraint proved fatal. Now she spends her days listening, containing, and letting silence do its work.

Until a new client tells her something he shouldn't.

He says he's already taken someone.
He says it calmly.
He says it without crossing the line that would allow her to act.

Bound by confidentiality and the limits of duty to protect, Eliza is forced into an impossible position: she cannot report what she knows, but she cannot unknow it either. As time passes and a missing-person alert surfaces, she begins to follow patterns instead of confessions-moving through the city not as an officer, but as someone who understands how absence announces itself long before violence does.

Each step she takes draws her closer to the life she tried to leave behind-and to the truth about why she stopped being a detective in the first place.

Time Is Ticking is a tense psychological thriller about responsibility, restraint, and the cost of acting too late-where the most dangerous line is the one you never quite cross.