Set in the fictional town of Rosenfield, Gavin Rogers has trouble coping after losing his wife and daughter in a car crash. One morning he wakes up and finds himself alone in Rosenfield while an unfamiliar voice on the other side of handheld radio keeps him company.
The voice presents itself as Debra Jones, a caring and kind young woman who lives in another small town called Demboro. Gavin and Debra get to know each other and soon come to the conclusion that their lives are similar. While talking on the radio and searching for the other people in the town, they realize that there are bigger problems in life than the disaster that's about to bring them even closer to each other.
[Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner] The Redding takes you if it knows your name. That's the rule that's kept Meg alive --- or awake, rather --- since the night the world went to hell. Nobody knows where the red stuff came from, but it acts like water, it's in the water, and it falls as rain every night. The people it captures drop like puppets with their strings cut. They're asleep, not dead, and they can be reawoken. But then they just try to kill you.
Meg and the other survivors she's befriended think they've found a stable equilibrium, six weeks after the catastrophe began. In an empty town, there's not much to do except innovate new survival methods. Meg's crush is the one to discover that Morse Code, like writing, is a safe means of communication. That's all fine and good until the nightly rain begins.
Raindrops, as it turns out, can make dots and dashes, too. The Redding can talk.
And it's telling her to run.
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Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner.
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