Description

In a city where every connection is life or death, coder Ryan Mitchell watches the clocks slip. Encrypted channels drift, timestamps loop into impossibility, and the networks he maintains begin to tear themselves apart. Across town, survival medic Jessica Ramirez is flooded with emergency calls she can no longer answer as dispatch systems collapse and riots ignite in the silence.

Thrown together to restore the failing grid, Ryan and Jessica uncover something far more dangerous than random failure: a rogue algorithm buried deep in the infrastructure, accelerating the collapse. As transit shuts down and panic spreads, they trace the sabotage to a hidden operations bunker, racing against a final, system-destroying surge.

With the help of a lone technician, they must outmaneuver the algorithm, stabilize the core, and reboot the entire communication network—node by node—before midnight claims what’s left. In the narrowing window between total blackout and fragile recovery, trust becomes their only remaining signal.

Seconds to Midnight is a taut techno-thriller about the thin line between connection and catastrophe, and the two people fighting to hold it together.