Don't Open This App!
Overview
PING
Three months ago, Nick Pappas buried his grandmother. Tonight, at exactly 1:12 AM, her phone lit up with a message meant only for him.
It's an old prototype, found locked away in her attic. A phone that should be dead, on a network that shouldn't exist anymore. But the messages keep coming. They know his nicknames. They know things only she would know.
Nick wants to believe it's her. He needs to believe it's her.
But the phone doesn't just receive messages. It repairs itself overnight. Cracked screen healed. Missing pieces replaced with parts from nowhere. And one socket on its edge sits empty, waiting, like it's building toward something.
The deeper Nick digs, the further back the trail goes. Twenty years, to a tech company that collapsed in a single night, and a project buried along with it. Something that was never supposed to wake up again.
Something that has been waiting for someone to open the app.
Every night, the messages get a little less like her. Every morning, the phone is a little more complete.
Nick has to decide how much he's willing to risk to keep talking to his grandmother, before whatever's really on the other end decides it doesn't need him to ask permission anymore.
The next ping is coming. Are you ready to answer it?
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798187353514
- ISBN-10: 9798187353514
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: July 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.59 pounds
- Page Count: 254
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