The Broken Hourglass

When Detective Raymond Hale finds a bloodstained hourglass in a missing woman's car, he thinks it's just another case in a city that never runs out of bad luck. But when another victim surfaces with the same haunting symbol, Hale is pulled into a web of mystery that defies time itself. Each clue leads back to a strange antique shop called The Broken Hourglass—a place where every clock is cracked, and every item holds a secret. As Hale digs deeper, he uncovers a connection between the missing, a man who shouldn't be alive, and a woman who traded her last moments to save someone else's. With the sands of his own time running out, Hale must face the truth: some debts are paid not in money, but in minutes. And when time becomes the currency, every second could be his last. The Broken Hourglass — a haunting detective story where time, memory, and redemption collide.