THE DEADLINE GAME Novel

When twenty-one-year-old horror novelist Arden Vale is killed by a mysterious bus after discovering her boyfriend's infidelity with her sister Lira, she awakens on Bus 000. There, she's trapped in The Deadline Game, a deadly competition where 47 recently deceased souls must survive seven nightmare stations based on Arden's own published horror novels for a chance at resurrection. Partnered with Kael Draven, a dead soldier who resembles a man she secretly loved and lost years ago, Arden discovers she possesses The Codebook, a mystical notebook where anything written becomes reality. As the competition grows deadlier, horrifying truths emerge: Kael is a construct born from her guilt and grief, her sister orchestrated everything for revenge, and The Conductor is Arden herself from a future timeline, trapped in an endless cycle of death and resurrection. To escape, Arden must sacrifice her memories and make an impossible choice: rewrite reality to save Kael or destroy the Game forever, condemning them both to oblivion. Some deadlines end in death. Hers became eternity.