The Override Window

At 12:17 a.m., her federal badge fails, her apartment becomes abandoned property, and a valid warrant turns her into evidence to be collected.

Her murdered mentor left one warning: verify three clocks, then trust no single system.

Before dawn, twenty-three witnesses are scheduled to vanish behind lawful-looking corrections.

Every hospital record, court order, and police screen points in the same direction.

Mara knows why.

She helped approve the emergency rule being used against them.

Tropes: erased identity, race against dawn, bureaucratic conspiracy, unlikely allies (what these mean)