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Valentine's Day magnifies loneliness as much as it celebrates love. For the rest of the world, February 14th is a day of roses and romance. But for Elara Vance, a veteran emergency dispatcher, it is the peak of the ""Grey Shift""-the hours where the calls are quiet, desperate, and hollow. For ten years, Elara has used her headset as a shield, helping strangers survive their tragedies so she doesn't have to face the one she caused. But tonight, the silence on the line is speaking her name. A persistent caller with no ID haunts Elara's station. When he finally speaks, the voice is a ghost she thought she had buried a decade ago. It is Julian-the artist she loved and the man she broke in a rain-slicked accident at 3:17 A.M. Now, he is standing on the ledge of the city's highest bridge, and he has spent years using a hijacked security code just to hear Elara's voice one last time. While Elara fights to talk Julian off the ledge, a different kind of message is struggling to be heard. Leo Rossi, a seventeen-year-old postal intern, discovers an ""undeliverable"" letter in the dead-letter bin. Written by an eighty-four-year-old widower named Arthur, the letter is a final, heartbreaking confession of love addressed to a house that was torn down years ago. Realizing that Arthur is waiting for a response that will never come, Leo defies protocol and his own fears, embarking on a midnight journey across the city to deliver the letter before it's too late. As the clock ticks toward the dreaded 3:17 A.M. anniversary, the lives of a dispatcher, a broken artist, a teenage messenger, and a dying widower converge in a symphony of lost souls. ""Still Breathing at 3:17 A.M."" is a cinematic, deeply immersive novel about the weight of the things we leave unsaid. It is a story of emotional survival, the courage it takes to be held accountable, and the proof that a single conversation can bridge the gap between despair and redemption.

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Davis Shyaka Musirikare is an unbounded storyteller - a voice that moves freely across genres, ideas, and emotions. His writing defies limitation, blending philosophy, imagination, and realism into experiences that challenge how we see the world and ourselves. Whether exploring the depths of human thought, the beauty of fiction, the strategy of power, or the science of existence, Davis writes with one purpose - to awaken the reader's mind and spirit. His stories are not confined by style or subject; they are driven by curiosity, truth, and the endless search for meaning. Known for his cinematic tone and reflective intensity, he transforms everyday questions into timeless explorations of life. Every book he writes invites readers to think, feel, and rediscover what it means to be alive. His words live beyond category - where wisdom meets wonder, and where storytelling becomes philosophy.

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