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The Whitlock Choir
Paperback
Series: The Shadow Protocols, Book 4
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2025
Pages: 430
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some hymns are prayers.
Some are traps.
When a strange recording leaves bodies behind in Savannah, investigator Cass Morgan is pulled into a case that should be impossible. The victims do not simply die. They listen. They follow. Then something inside them changes.
The first clue is an old hymn tied to the forgotten Whitlock Choir, a vanished group buried beneath rumor, grief, and sealed city records. The second is worse: the song is not dead. It is moving through speakers, radios, old tunnels, public spaces, and human memory, looking for anyone vulnerable enough to hear it.
Cass has spent years building a life out of discipline, evidence, and control. She knows how to read a scene. She knows how to follow a trail. She knows how to keep emotion out of the official record.
But this case knows her back.
With the city slipping toward panic, Cass teams up with injured audio specialist Gabe Reyes, a man whose humor is almost as sharp as his technical instincts. Together they uncover a pattern of salt, copper, resonance, and ritual hidden beneath Savannah's streets. What begins as a murder investigation becomes a race against a sound engineered to open old wounds and turn grief into obedience.
Someone has been preparing for this.
Someone understands the hymn.
Someone believes the Choir was never meant to stay buried.
As Cass follows the signal deeper, she finds a link to Deep Gauge, a secretive program tied to her own past and to a man she has spent years trying not to remember. Every answer costs her more. Every clue brings the song closer. And every time the lullaby plays, the city loses another piece of itself.
Now Cass must stop a weapon that does not need bullets, bombs, or blood to destroy a city. It only needs people to listen.
The Whitlock Choir is a supernatural thriller for readers who love:
- Creeping dread and fast escalation
- A haunted Southern city with secrets under its streets
- A sharp investigator with a painful past
- Science, folklore, and ritual colliding
- A mystery built on clues, consequences, and payoff
- A chilling threat that spreads through sound
The dead are not singing.
Something else is using their voices.
And when the Choir rises again, silence may be the only thing left to fear.
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