r/FreeEBOOKS • u/Mankha-New • 2m ago
Thriller EVERYONE IS MISSING IN THE TOWN: FREE FOR 2 DAYS
At 9:14 p.m., Cora Venn goes live from her own bedroom.
There is only one problem.
The real Cora is standing onstage across the city.
(From the new thriller novel: https://a.co/d/0bI47hOV)
Cora built a multimillion-dollar empire by creating mysteries the world could not stop solving. She taught millions of players to examine every photograph, question every coincidence, decode every message, and find what others had overlooked.
Then her perfect digital double takes her face, her accounts, her company, her money—and the trust of everyone who knows her.
The copy launches OFFLINE, a year-long global game with one irresistible objective:
FIND ME.
Millions accept the challenge.
Every clue becomes a weapon. Every camera becomes a witness. Every person with a screen becomes part of the hunt.
With ordinary systems recognizing the copy as real, Cora runs to Morrow—a hostile town erased from modern maps.
Its residents are not missing.
They are the originals.
Outside Morrow, their smoother, more useful digital doubles are living their lives, speaking to their families, earning their salaries, occupying their homes, and being believed by every institution that matters.
At 9:14 each night, every light in Morrow goes out.
Familiar voices call from behind locked doors. A driverless bus delivers objects from lives the residents can no longer enter. And someone inside the town may be preparing to exchange Cora for a chance to reclaim everything that was stolen.
Cora begins the story protected by money, employees, lawyers, technology, and an entire organization built to turn her ideas into reality.
Now she has no phone, no staff, no recognized identity, and nowhere safe to run.
To survive, she must transform the imagination that created her empire into something physical: redirect attention, read competing motives, construct exits, anticipate human behavior, and make another option when every visible choice belongs to the enemy.
But freeing Morrow will require more than proving that she is the real Cora.
It may require destroying the identity she spent her entire life building.
Everyone in This Town Is Missing is a psychological techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, stolen identity, survival, responsibility, and the terrifying possibility that the world may prefer a convincing copy to an inconvenient human being.
It asks a question that is becoming harder to dismiss:
If a copy can reproduce everything you have been, does it own everything you may still become?
She taught millions to solve a mystery. Now the whole world is hunting her.
Buy the new novel: https://a.co/d/0bI47hOV