Before the Signal Dies

Then Mara Keene heard her missing sister say her name.

When a violent storm strikes Black Ridge, emergency dispatcher Mara receives an impossible transmission: Willa's voice breaking through an abandoned radio network. Willa has been missing since a search ended without answers—and now every second of silence could mean losing her all over again.

The only man who understands the wilderness, the rescue routes, and the mistakes of the original investigation is Nolan Shaw, the search-and-rescue leader Mara has never forgiven.

Forced to work together, Mara and Nolan follow the signal through flooded roads, isolated cabins, forgotten relay stations, and a mountain forest designed to hide secrets. But someone is controlling the network. Some transmissions are real. Others are recordings meant to mislead them. Every new message could bring them closer to Willa—or lure the rescue team into another carefully prepared trap.

As the storm closes roads and cuts Black Ridge off from help, the attraction Mara has fought for years becomes impossible to ignore. Nolan may be the man most capable of bringing her sister home, but trusting him means risking more than her heart. And when buried evidence from the original search surfaces, their fragile alliance may collapse at the moment Willa needs them most.

To survive the night, Mara must learn which voices are real, which signals are lies, and whether the man who once failed her can become the one person she trusts when everything goes dark.

Before the Signal Dies is an atmospheric small-town romantic suspense featuring a determined emergency dispatcher, a protective search-and-rescue hero, a missing-sister mystery, storm-bound danger, emotional slow-burn tension, and a complete standalone story with a hopeful romantic ending.

Book One in the Black Ridge Rescue series of interconnected standalone romantic suspense novels.