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3: 17: A Listening Ground Novel (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Series: The Listening Ground, Book 1
HorrorMystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Bearigo Studio
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 3:17 every morning, something answers.
Owen Ward repairs old radios in a harbour workshop on the Irish coast. It is quiet, careful work - the kind that suits a man who has spent eleven years avoiding the shoreline where his twelve-year-old daughter, Clara, vanished.
Then his father's old Bush radio begins to speak.
Not with static. Not with drift. With Clara's voice.
At first, Owen believes grief has finally found a way to break him. But the signal returns the next night. And the next. Each transmission is precise, structured, and impossible - as if something has been waiting for him to stop transmitting and start listening.
What begins as one father's impossible hope draws Owen into something far older than his own loss: other listeners, other voices, records that should not exist, and a stretch of seabed off Dunargan Point that someone has spent decades keeping undisturbed.
A retired superintendent remembers a report that vanished from the files. A woman watching the shore has kept silent for thirty years. And somewhere beneath the dark water, an institution has been standing guard over something it refuses to name.
The dead have not been silent.
They have been waiting to be heard.
3:17 is Book One of The Listening Ground, a literary supernatural mystery about grief, memory, radio, and the dangerous act of paying attention.
Not every haunting needs a house. Some only need a frequency.
The Listening Ground continues in Book Two: Where Down Is
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