The Ninth Second - one second changes everything
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Last published Mon, Apr 20, 2026
Synopsis -
Dean MacMadden has spent a lifetime running towards danger. Former SAS. Decorated. Battle-tested. Now just another consultant commuting into London.
Until the past starts catching up with him.
It begins with a dream.
A memory from Bosnia, 1995.
A firefight. A strange black stone.
And a moment that should have been impossible.
Then it happens again.
Time slips. Just for a second.
Long enough to notice. Long enough to matter.
When the Ministry of Defence calls him in, Dean is pulled into a world that officially doesn't exist. A hidden organisation operating beyond the limits of time itself. Their mission: prevent events that could reshape history.
They've been watching him for over twenty years.
Because whatever he found that night in Bosnia...
it changed him.
Now he's the only one who can survive what comes next.
But some forces aren't meant to be controlled.
And some doors, once opened, don't lead back.
Copyright © 2026 by D. McDowell
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