The Borrowed Voice
Nora and the Field Static team investigate recordings that imitate the living and answer questions nobody asked.
Explore Book Two
A novel by J. Kepler Arden
Dead Air
Some recordings should stay silent.
Nora Mercer has spent years asking what a ghost story can actually prove. Then a voice she knows appears in a recording where it should not exist.
The premise
What can a recording prove when it starts to answer?
With audio engineer Nick Reyes, Nora hosts Field Static, a paranormal podcast that investigates alleged hauntings. They interview witnesses, examine records, test sounds, and look for the ordinary explanation first.
Most cases collapse under scrutiny. Then a fragment of audio turns up where it should not exist, carrying a voice Nora knows better than anyone: her own. The investigation forces her to consider whether she has been documenting a haunting—or teaching something how to speak.
Dead Air opens The Night Signal Trilogy, three interconnected psychological thrillers about paranormal phenomena, human perception, and the limits of evidence.
Continue the investigation
The signal carries on.
Last Transmission
With trust fractured and evidence compromised, Nora and her team face their most consequential search for the truth.
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