Code Blackout

Maya Reynolds thought it was just another job. As a freelance IT technician in Chicago, she spends her days patching servers and chasing down routine hacks. But when she discovers malicious code buried inside a client’s system, she stumbles onto something terrifying—a backdoor into the city’s power grid.

Within forty-eight hours, every hospital, subway line, and emergency service could be plunged into darkness. Millions of lives hang in the balance.

No one believes her warnings—except Agent Cole Harrington, a skeptical FBI investigator already drowning in false alarms. Cole doesn’t trust outsiders, and Maya doesn’t trust authority, but the evidence is undeniable. Reluctantly, they join forces.

Their investigation launches them into a deadly game of cat and mouse against an invisible enemy. Each lead uncovers another layer of the conspiracy, from hidden data farms to encrypted networks humming with sabotage. As the clock ticks down, threats move from the digital world into the real one. Someone is watching Maya, tracking her every move, determined to silence her before she can stop the attack.

With the city’s future teetering on the brink, Maya and Cole must risk everything—her ingenuity, his badge, and their fragile trust in each other—to unmask the hackers before Chicago goes dark.

Code Blackout is a pulse-pounding cyber thriller about ordinary people caught in extraordinary danger, and the thin line between technology’s promise and its peril.