Kate McKinney didn’t move to the middle of nowhere to make friends, she came for the quiet. The kind that doesn’t scream at her through dispatch calls or drag her back to a life she’s trying to forget.

Hollis Johnson is twenty, broke, and burned out. Her dad is dead. Her mom drinks too much. And the only thing holding their life together is a rotation of babysitting gigs around the neighborhood. Then people start dying. She finds out about the calls. Creepy, anonymous, always asking the same...

Kate and Boone have found their rhythm. Mostly. They’ve settled into Franklin County, and it’s almost perfect. She and Tom are figuring things out. Kind of. Work is going well. Things have been calmer since the welfare check last spring. Now they’re getting a string of burglaries. CAD call...