Laine wakes up in a locked hospital room with no memory of who she is or how she got there. Her body is restrained, the ward is abandoned, and stitched into her sleeve is a strange brass key-clearly left there on purpose.Moments later, she discovers the truth: a powerful man has been brutally murdered, and she is the prime suspect. Her face is already on the news. Someone is hunting her inside the hospital, while someone else is watching her every move from the outside.With only scattered clues, a ticking clock, and nine hours before she's silenced forever, Laine is forced to run, hide, and uncover a past she deliberately tried to erase. Every answer leads to another danger-fake police, hired cleaners, hidden vaults, and a secret powerful enough to kill anyone connected to it.As memories begin to surface, Laine realizes the most dangerous part of the mystery isn't who framed her-it's what she herself was involved in before she forgot everything.Nine Hours Gone is a fast-paced thriller about memory, identity, and survival, where every hour matters and trusting the wrong person can be fatal.