In the small town of Ashford Hollow, the local AM station WKLR has always been background noise — traffic updates, weather, late-night call-ins. Then the broadcasts change. Every message that airs describes a crime in precise, chilling detail, and every single one comes true exactly twenty-four hours later. Night producer Ellie Marsh is the only one who notices the pattern before the police do, and once she starts listening for the signal beneath the static, she can't stop. As the town spirals into panic and the sheriff's department scrambles to trace a source that seems to come from nowhere and everywhere at once, the transmissions grow bolder, more personal, more impossible to ignore. Then comes the final broadcast — not a warning about a single act, but a countdown naming three people who don't yet know they're connected: Ethan Blackwell, a contractor hiding a debt he can't repay; Mara Whitlock, a nurse who witnessed something she was never meant to see; and Daniel Cross, a teenager convinced he's already been marked. With less than a day before the voice on the radio makes good on its promise, Ellie has to figure out who is broadcasting the future, why these three names were chosen together, and whether stopping the signal is even possible once the countdown has already started.



Connor Hayes CH writes atmospheric psychological thrillers that blur the line between the everyday and the uncanny. Drawn to small towns with big secrets, Hayes crafts stories where ordinary settings hide extraordinary danger. When not writing, Hayes can be found exploring old radio history and true crime archives for inspiration.