Sign-In
Cart
170 Hours to Midnight: Victorian Gothic Mystery Thriller
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
170 hours. No sleep. One legacy of blood.
Johnny Sleep is a Hollow Man. Haunted by a failure in the London docks that left his partner dead and his mind shattered, he lives in a state of permanent wakefulness. He doesn't just see the world; he feels its vibrations through a rhythmic neurological tic that has become his only compass.
When a black-edged envelope summons him to the salt-blasted valley of Oakhaven, Johnny is thrust into the decaying opulence of Blackwood Manor. The Rose family is drowning, not in the Atlantic, but in a thirty-year-old conspiracy of silt and shadows.
The Mystery of 1894. Decades ago, a village was submerged to hide a secret more volatile than gold. Now, the waters are rising again. With the help of the Black Widow heiress, Missy Rose, Johnny must navigate a landscape of chemical warfare, gaslight deception, and the terrifying reach of the Croft Legacy.
The Clock is Ticking. From the flooded chambers of a secret laboratory to the high-stakes ballrooms of London, Johnny must hunt a killer before his own heart shakes itself to pieces. In a world of Industrial Noir, the truth is the only thing more dangerous than the dark.
Can the man who never sleeps wake a nation up to the truth?
In the soot-stained streets of 1920s London and the shadowed valleys of Oakhaven, silence isn't golden, it's a weapon.
Johnny Sleep is a man haunted by 190 hours of forced wakefulness. A former Logic-Breaker for a shadow agency, he emerged from a catastrophic experiment with a curse: a hyper-awareness of the world's hidden rhythms. He can hear the lie in a heartbeat and feel the vibration of a conspiracy before it's even whispered. But his greatest challenge isn't a case; it's the Great Quiet, a terrifying plot to subdue the world's population through a mineral known as the Black Vein.
By his side is Missy Rose, the brilliant, high-society exile from the Rose lineage. Together, they are the only ones who can navigate the Silt-Shadows left behind by the Croft family's legacy. From the flooded ruins of a manor house to the heights of the New York skyline, their journey is a high-stakes race against The Architect and his Quiet Brotherhood.
As they dismantle empires of static and sound, Johnny and Missy find that the only frequency worth saving is the one they create together. It is a story of atmospheric mystery, industrial horror, and a romance that proves even in a world of manufactured silence, the human heart will always find a way to be heard.
Also from
Lamb, George
Series of Plans of Boston Showing Existing Ways and Owners of Property, 1630-1635-1640-1645
Lamb, George
Paperback
Series of Plans of Boston Showing Existing Ways and Owners of Property 1630-1635-1640-1645
Lamb, George
McGlenen, Edward W. (Edward Webster)
Paperback
Series of Plans of Boston Showing Existing Ways and Owners of Property, 1630-1635-1640-1645
Lamb, George
Hardcover
Also in
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Goldman, William
Paperback
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paperback
Japanese Gothic: A Folk Horror Novel of Japanese Mythology, Murder, and Family Duty Across Two Timelines
Baker, Kylie Lee
Hardcover
Assistant to the Villain: A Cozy Fantasy Romantic Comedy from a Tiktok Sensation
Maehrer, Hannah Nicole
Paperback
Before I Knew I Loved You: A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Hardcover