A romance-suspense thriller with a whispering house, coded secrets, and a love forged in paranoia. Sloane Maddox thought she'd escaped the lab. Thought the breach, the blinking corpse, the silence in the aftermath were just nightmares she could outrun. But the safe house where she's supposed to disappear is... listening. The man assigned to protect her isn't what he seems. He knows too much. Says too little. And the instructions he leaves behind—sealed in an envelope, never to be opened unless he doesn't come back—are the beginning of something terrifying. When the house begins transmitting Morse code through the vents and whispering her name from the shadows, Sloane realizes Cassidy, the woman who lived there before her, didn't just vanish. She made contact. But with what? As secrets unravel and the code begins to respond in real time, Sloane is caught between the terrifying truth buried beneath the floorboards—and the man who may have led her straight into it. If the house is wired to speak, what happens when it learns to love? For fans of Blake Crouch, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Gillian Flynn. Dark romance, creeping suspense, and smart speculative mystery collide in this gripping novella of trust, technology, and terror.