THREE SECONDS BY LIBRAN SEVEN

Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in her daughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She remembers everyone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A street festival. A school parents' evening. A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths. They were not connected. They were all different people in different places at different times. There was no pattern anyone could see. Emma was at all five. Three Seconds is not a thriller about a detective closing in. There is no race against time. Nobody figures it out. This is a novel about a woman who lives a completely normal life and does one thing inside it that nobody knows about. She doesn't know why she does it. She has tried to find out. The answer never comes. What she does know is this: it takes three seconds. And she feels nothing she has a word for after. Dark. Quiet. Unforgettable.