THE LONG NIGHT PROTOCOL (End Of Watch Series Book 1)

Most nights on patrol are routine.Noise complaints. Locked doors. The quiet rhythm of a city pretending nothing ever really goes wrong.But then the knocking starts.At first, it’s just small things — doors found open, rooms that feel occupied, calls that don’t quite make sense. Nothing dramatic. Nothing anyone can prove. Just a growing sense that something is testing the line between inside and out.Officers Rick Jericho and Logan Vance work the night shift in a city that never expected to defend itself from anything other than crime and fire. But as strange calls turn into impossible encounters, they begin to realize the job is bigger than they were trained for. Some doors aren’t meant to be opened. Some rooms aren’t meant to be shared. And sometimes the only thing standing between the ordinary world and something waiting patiently outside… is whoever shows up when the radio calls.As the phenomenon spreads from doorways to entire buildings — and eventually into places built from memory, grief, and meaning — Rick and Logan learn a new rule of the night:You don’t have to defeat the dark.You just have to be there when it knocks.Still 10-8 is a tense, atmospheric urban fantasy about unseen guardians, quiet courage, and the thin line between the world we know and the one that waits just beyond the threshold. Read more