Zero Hour

In a world where time doesn't measure life-it controls it-everyone is born with a countdown.

When it hits zero, the system chooses your partner.
Six months. One child. No exceptions.

Fail... and your time comes back shorter.

No one fails twice.

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Arkadia Knox was never supposed to be part of it.

Her timer has been frozen her entire life-untouched, unnoticed, free.
Until the day it starts ticking.

Fast.

Thrown into a system she's spent years avoiding, Arkadia is matched with Rune Wynter-a man on his final countdown. Cold. Unpredictable. Already marked by failure.

He doesn't believe in the system.
She doesn't trust him.

But time is running out-and in a world where every second is controlled, desperation turns dangerous.

And Rune?

He's not just trying to survive his countdown.

He's hiding something that could destroy the system entirely.

Because in the end, the system doesn't fear failure.

It fears one thing more:

People who choose for themselves.

Zero Hour
When the clock hits zero... who do you become?