The Day Behind: A Novel of Time, Work, and the Distance Between

By Toby Mikle

The world is still there. The people are not.

He flew west to make the world small.

When billionaire Julian Vane lands eighteen minutes later, every city still has power, every table still holds yesterday's food-and every human being is gone. A broadcast from tomorrow reveals the impossible: Julian is trapped one day behind everyone else.

His money can open doors, but it cannot restart a pump, mend a cooling line, grow food, or rebuild the only aircraft that remembers the way home. As clocks drift and the abandoned world decays through years that pass only for him, Julian must return to the university bearing his name and learn the work he once paid others to make invisible.

To reach humanity, he will have to master the machine, fly east against time, and become someone worth bringing back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9NP2MXK
• ISBN13: 9798188166540
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"