A Lonely Broadcast

Evelyn McKinnon returns to Pinehaven, a sleepy town in Appalachia, hoping to gather up the pieces of a messy life. She takes a job at a radio tower standing alone at the edge of the woods, and the work turns out to be more than a paycheck.

When fog settles over the town, things come out of the forest. The station's broadcast is what holds them back, so keeping the signal alive becomes a matter of keeping Pinehaven safe. Evelyn works alongside two others, Daniel and Finn, and together they are pulled into a supernatural conspiracy that winds through the station and the town's buried past.

This is horror with a cosmic, eldritch streak. It delivers gruesome scares, and it also leans on dark humor, so the dread sits beside jokes rather than crowding them out. Underneath runs a feeling-heavy story of friendship and grief, and of finding a reason to keep going when everything has gone dark.

The book began as a serial on the NoSleep forum and has been expanded and reimagined here as a full-length novel. It is the first book in the Lonely Broadcast series, so it opens a larger story rather than closing a standalone one.