The Eleven Minute Void Will Make You Paranoid (You're Welcome)

There is a particular kind of book that changes how you see ordinary things, and I set out to write one.

Here is the test. The next time an app freezes, or the power flickers, or a screen goes dark for a second longer than it should, notice whether a small voice in the back of your head whispers "scheduled maintenance." Because that is the phrase the world uses in The Eleven Minute Void to explain away something that cannot be explained: eleven minutes when every system failed at once and then insisted it never happened.

Emilia Cross is the reason the phrase stops working on you. She is a financial analyst who reads patterns for a living, precise to the point of obsession and dryly funny under pressure. Standing in a pitch-black office with every screen dead, she checks her analog watch, the only instrument still running, and notes that if this is the apocalypse, it is well within SLA. That is who you are spending the book with, and she does not let anyone, including you, off the hook with a comfortable lie.

The Eleven Minute Void is out now, free to read on Kindle Unlimited or yours to buy. Search Christie Winter on Amazon. And if it has already gotten under your skin, a review helps the next reader find it.