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Cut to Black: The First Thread
Paperback
Series: Dead Air Files, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
CUT TO BLACK: THE FIRST THREAD
A Dead Air Files Thriller
When journalist Mara Kincaid is exiled to a quiet coastal county, she expects small stories and smaller stakes. What she finds instead is a death that doesn't sit right and a system that works very hard to keep it that way.
Elena Vance is ruled a drowning. Case closed. No questions asked.
Mara asks them anyway.
What begins as a routine follow-up quickly fractures into something far more dangerous. Evidence disappears. Stories change. A broadcast is cut down to nothing. And when Mara pushes closer to the truth, the truth starts pushing back.
Anonymous photographs. Midnight activity at a private marina. Unmarked barrels moved in the dark. A pattern of deaths no one bothered to connect.
This isn't a mistake. It's infrastructure.
As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers a network built on silence, misdirection, and just enough truth to keep everything buried. The deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes: this story was never meant to be told and she may have been sent here for a reason.
With her footage erased and someone inside her own station feeding information to the wrong side, Mara is forced off the grid. No institution. No protection. Just one shot to expose what's really happening before she becomes part of the pattern.
Because in this county, stories don't disappear.
They get cut.
And when the signal goes dark, someone always benefits.
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