The Vanishing Hours

At 7:04 a.m., June Ahlgren's boss walked out of the Stockholm office with the firm's encryption key. By 7:40, the entire continent's worth of anonymous testimony was seventy-two hours from being wiped forever. Aksel Ryberg flies in from Geneva to contain it. Fifty-two, ice-cold, and the only person with authority to do what comes next. He needs June because she's the last person who saw the key leave. He needs her for something else, too — and he isn't saying what. From a Malmö server farm to a cabin above the Arctic Circle, they have seventy-two hours and no backup. Somewhere in that window, June learns the missing analyst is her half-brother. And that Aksel has known for a week. An age-gap boss romantic thriller about a clock that won't stop, and two people who ran out of reasons to lie to each other.