The signal beneath
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Last published Sun, Aug 3, 2025
Some lines shouldn't be crossed. Some already have.
Casey Flynn thought her biggest challenge would be surviving public high school. But the thing watching her from the woods has other plans.
There's a hum in the floorboards. Lights flicker when she closes her eyes. And something impossible is moving in the trees beyond her bedroom window.
Her father says it's nothing.
Her instincts say it's a warning.
Her town has secrets-and she may be at the center of them.
In a town straddling the edge of science and nightmare, Casey must uncover the truth before reality slips completely out of reach.
Stranger Things meets Annihilation in this eerie coming-of-age thriller set against the static-filled backdrop of 1980s small-town mystery.
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