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Voices Trapped Beyond Midnight
Paperback
Publisher: Richard Lopez
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the dying Appalachian town of Oakhaven, Noah Carter has heard the world differently. Trained to recognize vibrations in metal, stone, and air, he trusts sound more than words. When a mysterious peddler offers him an ornate walnut box known as the Echo-Coffer, Noah believes he has found an extraordinary acoustic instrument. But the box responds to frequencies no machine should hear-and seems to remember the voices of the dead.
A subterranean cry rising from Blackwood Ridge draws Noah into the abandoned Great Colliery. When the Echo-Coffer swallows the scream, the mountain falls silent, but the price is immediate: his friend Eleanor Fairchild loses her voice, and another woman in the valley suffers the same theft. The box hums with tones taken from the living, alongside anguished cries buried beneath Oakhaven. As Noah and Eleanor investigate mine records, rescue tapes, and his family's secrets, they uncover the truth behind the disaster of 1962. The voices are not ordinary ghosts. They are the preserved acoustic memories of miners who died in Shaft Four-and warnings that the fractured mountain is nearing another collapse.
Noah discovers that his grandfather Raymond built the Echo-Coffer to turn trapped voices into a signal capable of guiding men to safety. Raymond died underground saving eighteen miners, and the peddler who delivered the device is bound to that sacrifice. Now the fault lines are being driven toward failure by Clayton Pierce's relentless quarry operations. With Pillar 4-B near its breaking point, Noah must understand the Coffer's purpose before Oakhaven is swallowed.
The only chance to save the town lies in awakening an abandoned ventilation spire and using its cast-iron horn to carry the mountain's warning across the valley. But the Coffer holds the dead miners' cries and the stolen voices of the living, and releasing its power may demand everything Noah has left. As the quarry prepares its final blast, he and Eleanor race against the mountain, hoping to make Oakhaven hear the danger in time. Voices Trapped Beyond Midnight is a supernatural thriller about sound, memory, inherited sacrifice, and the cost of refusing to listen.
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