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The Frequency of Grief
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Frequency of Grief
by Morgan Thayer
Grief doesn't fade. It hums.
Sloane Vance has built her life on the certainty of the past. As a forensic genealogist, she tracks the dead through paper trails and forgotten records, proving that what's done is done. But when she returns to her childhood home after her father's death, she discovers something impossible in the attic: a field-phone her brother built in 1994-still humming with life.
When Sloane turns the crank, the line connects.
Not to a ghost.
Not to memory.
To herself-twelve years old and six days away from the accident that killed her brother.
Armed with knowledge of what's coming, Sloane attempts to rewrite fate. But the universe resists. Every change carries a cost. Each saved moment reshapes the future in unpredictable ways. Accidents shift. Tragedies mutate. The world corrects.
And Sloane begins to understand: she isn't just fighting grief-she's negotiating with it.
Blending speculative tension with emotional realism, The Frequency of Grief is a haunting, character-driven novel about love, survivor's guilt, alternate timelines, and the unbearable weight of what if. It asks a devastating question:
If you could save the person you lost...
how much of yourself would you be willing to erase?
Perfect for readers who love emotional speculative fiction with grounded psychological depth and literary resonance.
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