Seven Hours: a novel

Four billion years ago, a tiny fragment began a journey through the stars that would eventually collide with the path of a modern spacecraft. On Earth, a young man named Jacob is trapped in a different kind of orbit, haunted by visceral, recurring nightmares of his father's death that began when he was only four years old. His father, Esraa, is an elite pilot turned astronaut who is more at home in the silence of the cockpit than with his own family, leaving Jacob and his mother, Clair, to navigate the hollow spaces of his absence.When Esraa embarks on a mission to the International Space Station, a catastrophic celestial impact leaves him adrift with only seven hours of oxygen remaining. As a desperate rescue plan is set in motion, Jacob finds himself at a breaking point, forced to confront the mysterious entities that have stalked his consciousness since childhood: the whispering, smiling Moon and a silent Shadow Man wrapped in the scent of lake water and moss. In a race against time, the boundaries between reality and nightmare blur, revealing that the choices made long ago on a quiet shore have a price that must finally be paid."Seven Hours" is a haunting exploration of family legacy, the weight of secrets, and the fragile thread connecting a father to a son struggling to reclaim his own mind.