Seventeen Past Five

Every day, at exactly 5:17 PM, Clara dies. And Ethan wakes up to watch it happen again.



No matter how fast he drives, how tightly he holds her hand, how desperately he rewrites the day — fate carves its mark into her at the same hour, in a hundred different ways. Accidents. Coincidences. Violence. Silence.

Always. 5:17.



As the days spiral into endless repetition, Ethan trades his grief for cold calculation. He masters medicine, engineering, survival — building and rebuilding the fragile hours between dawn and disaster. But every skill sharpened, every plan perfected, only teaches him one thing: the loop is not meant to be broken.



When love turns to obsession and hope rots into madness, how far will Ethan go to defy a world determined to end her life?

And if he finally wins—

what will be left of the man who loved her?



At 5:17 PM, the clock strikes.

The world ends.

And the loop begins again.