Because Page 63 had only one book left.
She looked at her apartment window. The lock was, indeed, undone.
She checked the page counter.
The first line read: "Maya Chen will enter her apartment at 8:47 PM. She will not check the lock on the window. He is already inside."
And in the reflection of her black phone screen, she saw someone standing behind her. She ran. But as she burst into the stairwell, gasping, she realized the terrifying truth about : Because Page 63 had only one book left
And its publication date was tomorrow.
Maya scrolled to the bottom of Page 2. A small line of text glowed in the footer: She checked the page counter
Page 1 was boring. The Cairo Conspiracy (2015). Run Before Dawn (2016). She scraped the metadata, checked for broken links, and moved on.