CONCURRENT
A private psychiatric hospital that does not appear on any map. A restricted floor with no elevator button. A predecessor who vanished. Patient files bearing Dr. Daniel Maren's own signature - dated six months before his arrival.
As Daniel investigates, he uncovers Protocol V: a sixty-year programme that has been selecting psychiatrists, disrupting their memories, and placing them in constructed clinical roles - all to answer a single question: who are you when the professional function stops?
At the heart of the hospital is a room. White walls. A wooden chair. A window without glass. Every psychiatrist before Daniel approached it and retreated. Daniel is the first to sit down.
Narrated by two voices that the reader slowly understands belong to the same person - divided by the gap the novel exists to close - Concurrent asks whether a real thing discovered through wrong means can be kept. And what it costs. And who pays, when the answer is yes.