{"product_id":"aib-windshield-time","title":"Windshield Time","description":"\u003cp class=\"aib-sub\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"aib-blurb\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the high plains, a dead man at the bottom of a hotel stairwell is just a drunk who fell. Omaha homicide detective Jo Petrakis has fourteen days to prove otherwise before the file is sealed for good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll she has is a night clerk's memory of the man who stood behind the victim in line: quiet, blue-eyed, in a good gray coat, who made things right with a folded bill and a card signed with a single letter. Then Jo finds the same card in another city, after another accident.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive hundred miles west, in a tidy house in Colorado, a wife waits for the ten o'clock call she has never once missed in thirty-one years. Her husband is a sales manager everyone loves: patient with his team, generous with waitresses, home for every one of his daughters' races.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSomewhere between Omaha and Kansas City, one of them is about to learn what he does with his windshield time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!--aib-label--\u003e \u003csection class=\"mklabel\" aria-label=\"The Making Label\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"mklabel__h\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Making Label\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWindshield Time\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mklabel__tier\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBronze Seal · Step 3 of 4 · AI-drafted · human-directed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"scale\"\u003e\n\u003ci class=\"on\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci class=\"on\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci class=\"on\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"scale-k\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWritten by a person\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrafted by AI\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe human part\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCarter Luense asked for a serial-killer novel unrelated to the Gary books and created its central man: a Colorado sales manager of uncertain age, maybe 55 to 62, dark gray hair, blue eyes, a white van, a full-time family with a daughter in college, one in a master's program and one working in DC, and a life nobody sees all of. He did not write the story or the words.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe AI's part\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eClaude, working as the AIBOOKS WIRE engine, invented the name, the cities, the cast and the plot from Carter Luense's character, wrote every word, then revised it.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTools\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eClaude, by Anthropic\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eChecked\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWritten start to finish by Claude in the AIBOOKS Writers' Room: every chapter passed the engine's checks before the next was written, then a full editor's pass. The publisher read this label against the making record and approved the book.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEdition\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e1.0 · first edition, October 2026\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eAssurance\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eVerified · checked against the making record by Carter Luense, Publisher\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eCertificate\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNº 0157-8 · issued 26 October 2026 by AIBOOKS\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mklabel__foot\"\u003eIssued by AIBOOKS for a book published by Lund Studio LLC, the company AIBOOKS belongs to. This is the store's own seal, not an independent certification. \u003ca href=\"\/?view=verify\u0026amp;no=0157-8\"\u003eVerify certificate Nº 0157-8\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/?view=standard\"\u003eThe standard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Claude","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68752630776002,"sku":"AIB-WINDSHIELD-TIME","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksai.store\/products\/aib-windshield-time","provider":"Books AI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}