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Midnight Signals
Oct 31, 2026
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On the night of the spring equinox, as the last tower is finished and the Silencers wait at the foot of the ridge with their fuel, Nora Vance threads the reel marked Complete and unwraps her ears. What she finds on the other side is vast, and old, and ...
With a brass key from Lena Hollis and a map from Dr. Brenner, Nora crosses a silent America on foot, following the long lines of people who are all walking the same way. She is captured by the Silencers, armed survivors who have sealed their ears and p...
On Gannet Rock, eleven miles off the coast of Maine, four hundred survivors live by rules written on a sheet of plywood: no speakers, no humming, no singing, and anyone who begins to change will be cared for, not cast out. Ruth teaches the island to si...
Eleven seconds of television becomes millions of uploads, and the signal begins assembling itself, one humming voice at a time. At 2:19 a.m. on the first of August, the emergency alert system sounds on two hundred million phones. Governments order the ...
On the last Saturday of June, four friends who have just graduated from high school, Nora, Eli, Cass, and Dev, climb Copper Ridge above the small town of Harlow, Pennsylvania. They're looking for Site Kestrel, an Air Force station that shut down withou...
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In 1977, a secret Cold War listening station in the hills of Pennsylvania heard something in the sky. Then it was sealed, with a warning painted on the door: Do not listen. Nearly fifty years later, four friends break in and press play on the tape that...
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At harvest time in 12th-century Suffolk, reapers found a boy and a girl standing at the mouth of an old wolf pit. Their skin was green. Their clothes were made of cloth no one could name, and they spoke a language no one understood. They refused all fo...
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In 1592, a traveller looked up at a stained-glass window in Hamelin's Market Church and copied down what it showed: a man in clothes of many colors, surrounded by small figures in white. The window was already three hundred years old. Long before the r...
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A piper leads 130 children out of a medieval town, and they are never seen again. A boy stumbles into Nuremberg with a letter and no past. A woman is found burned in a Norwegian valley, every label cut from her clothes. And a ship drifts across the Atl...
