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My name is Danny Lenihan and I am the author of Rogue, Enemy, The Bleeds, and my new novel Ashes Through the Hourglass, published by Big Thinking Publishing on June 2nd 2026.

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Ashes Through the Hourglass

In 1988, Mason Winward's older sister is killed by a drunk driver who walks free. Consumed by grief and rage, the teenage Mason is on the verge of taking justice into his own hands — until a stranger steps in and talks him back from the edge.

"There's a better way," the man tells him, "to confront your grief."

The stranger calls himself Fagan. Over the following months he becomes Mason's mentor, guiding him through the darkness and teaching him to channel his grief into something better. Then, without warning, Fagan vanishes. No explanation. No goodbye.

Years later, Mason's best friend Alex arrives with something impossible: a way to travel back in time. Together they build an institute dedicated to doing what Fagan once did for Mason — reaching children at their lowest points and pulling them back before it's too late.

But every intervention has consequences. When one of Mason's wards murders the very man that killed his sister, he is left with an impossible dilemma - save Cassie's murderer, or save his patient from a lifetime of incarcertion? How much of the past can be changed, and at what cost?

And somewhere in the past lies the answer to the question that has haunted Mason for decades: what happened to the man who saved him?

A darkly funny, deeply emotional story about grief, second chances, and the possibility that even the smallest act of kindness can change everything.