A broke driver gains the power to see how long anyone has left.
One crash rewired his eyes. Now every stranger carries a number he can't ignore.
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Zion Reed spends his days scraping by as a delivery driver in Los Angeles, invisible to almost everyone around him. A brutal traffic collision leaves him alive but changed, because he wakes up able to see a countdown floating above every person he meets, along with their hidden worth and the fate waiting for them. What starts as a curse becomes leverage, and the same city that once looked past him is suddenly something he can read like an open book. The question that pulls the story forward is whether a man who can measure everyone else's time can protect the people he actually cares about, including himself.
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