Listening Station

Nora Ellis restores old tape. She has spent eleven years learning to listen, and almost as long perfecting one small lie.When a heritage trust hires her to restore the archive of a decommissioned Cold War listening post on a tidal island, she ticks a single box on the application: no personal connection.Ten days. Five people. A causeway the sea can take back within the hour.Then a tape turns up on a shelf where nothing stood the night before, and the voice on it knows her name. A hum in the walls changes its rhythm. A storm cuts the island off.In 1994 a young operator vanished from this station without a trace. The only people who know why are here with her, and every one of them is hiding something.And so is she.Some secrets are kept in silence. This one was recorded.A slow-burning, atmospheric psychological thriller about the choices we make when the truth costs everything, for readers who like unreliable narrators, sealed-off settings and twists that reward a second look.