Between Seconds

Between Seconds: The Silence Between Heartbeats

by Michelle Hoffmann

Owen Hale remembers everything-except the moments that matter most.

As a child, he suffered terrifying blackouts-lost time during which he was awake, speaking, even smiling, yet remembered nothing afterward. Decades later, those vanished moments still haunt him, driving him to study the mind and the physics of time itself.

Now a scientist obsessed with causality, Owen builds a device to look backward-to find the missing hours that shaped his life. But when the machine finally works, only his consciousness travels. His body stays behind. And the time he revisits isn't empty.

Because someone-or something-was always there during his blackouts.
And it's been waiting for him to come back.

As reality fractures and the line between self and shadow dissolves, Owen must confront the most chilling revelation of all: the darkness that stole his childhood was never a visitor. It was him.

A haunting blend of psychological suspense and speculative science, Between Seconds explores the cost of control, the danger of perfection, and the fragile mercy of imperfection itself.