97 FLOORS TOO HIGH

97 FLOORS TOO HIGH

By Van Larkin

In New York City, every choice costs something. Marcus Reed just didn’t realize his would cost him time.

When Marcus passes on a warm third-floor walk-up in Manhattan’s Village for a sleek luxury apartment ninety-seven stories above the city, it feels like success. Glass walls. Endless skyline. A life above the noise.

But life in the sky comes with a hidden price: minutes lost every day inside an elevator… minutes that start adding up.

Then the elevator begins stopping every night at 9:17 PM on a floor that shouldn’t exist.

The doors open.
The hallway is empty.
And sometimes… something is waiting.

As Marcus races to save his relationship, his future, and eventually his own life, he discovers the terrifying truth: the time he spends waiting in that elevator isn’t just being wasted.

It’s being taken.

And somewhere inside the building, another version of him is trapped in the moment everything went wrong — still watching the doors open… still waiting… still losing.

A tense psychological thriller about ambition, hesitation, and the seconds that decide everything, 97 Floors Too High asks one chilling question:

How different would your life be if you had just been a few minutes earlier?

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