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Open Line: THe Call Came From Her Own House
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 7 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 2:13 a.m., a 911 dispatcher takes a whispered call from inside her own house.
He's in Maddie's room. Tell Tess I'm sorry.
Tess Malloy has spent fourteen years staying calm while strangers have the worst night of their lives. When the line goes dead, she runs. She gets home to an open window, her sixteen-year-old daughter's phone lying on the bed, and an empty room.
Then she replays the recording and recognizes the voice. It belongs to Jenna Harmon, a woman who died six years ago on Tess's watch. Tess took her call, and the official report said Tess sent help to the wrong address. Tess has believed that for six years.
Now someone is sending her texts. Maddie is alive, and she'll stay safe if Tess digs up the one recording the county swore didn't exist. They give her forty-eight hours. And she can't tell anyone at the Sheriff's Office, least of all the respected Chief Deputy who is a few weeks from being elected sheriff.
Tess is going up against a whole county's worth of buried secrets, and she can't tell who's on her side, so she'll have to rely on the one skill she's sure of: listening.
OPEN LINE is a fast standalone thriller with short chapters, a tight forty-eight-hour clock, and a final call you won't see coming. Pick it up tonight, but don't start it after midnight.
What Readers Get
- A standalone thriller: no series to catch up on
- Short, fast chapters built for one more page
- A ticking clock from the first scene to the last
- Small-town secrets and a twist you will not see coming
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