Alex Rivera thought he knew what fear looked like. He thought it was the lingering shadow of a childhood spent in stagnation, or the suffocating weight of the financial desperation that drove him to a late-night joke about an impossible heist. But true terror doesn't lurk in the past it's ticking down in real-time.

When Alex is thrust into a malicious game of survival, he is handed a list of five precise, agonizing tasks. These aren't random acts of cruelty; they are weaponized secrets mined directly from his own deepest confessions.To save everything he holds dear, Alex is forced to push his mind and body past the breaking point. From a terrifying 10,000-foot skydive to swimming with sharks, each hour forces him to confront a ghost he thought he'd left behind.

But the physical peril is only a smoke screen for a much deeper, more insidious nightmare. As Alex scrambles to complete the list-including a high-stakes bank robbery where he panics and steals fifty thousand dollars, and a brutal confession that threatens to shatter his relationship with his best friend, Drea-he begins to unravel a twisted thread connecting his tormentor to his family's fractured history.

The ultimate test lies in Phase Three, where a grainy, long-hidden videotape reveals a shocking truth about his absent father, Miguel Sr. The man who walked out on him wasn't running from fatherhood; he was running from the Horologium Circle, a dangerous, cult-like organization that extracts its debts in blood. Now, a long-lost brother raised in the hollow shadows of the cult has emerged to balance the family's multi-generational ledger.

With the clock relentlessly ticking toward zero, Alex must face his final confrontation. Can he break the cycle of a cult's generational curse, or will the final second seal his family's doom? Tick Tock: 24 Hours to Live is a breakneck psychological thriller that explores the lengths a father will go to save his son, and the dark secrets that refuse to stay buried.