The doubt protocol

Helle Ashford was never normal. At seventeen, she became the youngest investigator to win the prestigious Mystery Talent Show, a global competition where gifted detectives solve impossible cases involving unexplained phenomena known only as The Doubt.

People admired her intelligence. Feared her instincts. But no one knew the truth. Sometimes Helle could hear things before they happened.

Sometimes she dreamed of places she had never visited. And sometimes… she saw the dead.

When her former partner Robert disappears while investigating a strange café connected to multiple missing persons cases, Helle is pulled into a conspiracy far larger than she imagined. Bloody messages appear where no one could have entered. Frozen corpses vanish overnight. A grieving mother named Amanda claims her missing daughter is still alive somewhere inside the café.

Then Helle discovers the horrifying truth:

The café does not exist in one place.

It moves. Hidden between dimensions, the building is connected to an experimental government project that attempted to weaponize paranormal abilities decades earlier. Now terrorist organizations, corrupt officials, and supernatural hunters are searching for the same thing:

A girl capable of controlling The Doubt itself. And that girl is Helle. Now hunted by the government, manipulated by shadow organizations, and haunted by visions of people who should be dead, Helle must survive long enough to uncover what she truly is before the power inside her tears reality apart.

Because some abilities are gifts. And some are warnings.