One Week Until The Eleven Minute Void (and What to Read First)

Seven days from now, my new series begins. The Eleven Minute Void, Book 1 of The Valkyrie Protocol, releases August 15, and it opens with every system in the world going dark for exactly eleven minutes that the record insists never happened.

If you have been with me through the archive and the frame-up, you already know the drill: clear your evening, silence your phone, and do not start it on a work night.

If you are new here, welcome. You have arrived at a good moment, because you have two complete series to fall into while you wait.

The Archivist's Code is five books about a disgraced cryptographer who finds a mark in the margin of a Renaissance manuscript and realizes it is a cipher that has been threaded through the historical record for centuries, kept by an order that decides what the world is allowed to remember. The Ambush Files is five books about an intelligence officer who wakes to find flawless footage of himself carrying out assassinations he did not commit, and walks straight into the machine that built the lie. Each is collected into a single bookset, or free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

Pick one this week. Then meet me in the dark on August 15. Search Christie Winter on Amazon, and join the list at winter-mysteries.com for the release-day alert.