Between Stations

In Static Hollow, it is always Tuesday after school.

Riley Voss is fifteen, lives on Maple Court, and has called a dead phone line every night for three years: four hundred and twelve calls, zero messages. Riley's father, the night tech at the radio tower, went missing without a goodbye. Since then the neighborhood has been politely, cheerfully signed up by Brightwave, a media company that wants every house tuned to its station by Renewal Night.

Then the radio hidden under Riley's bed wakes up. It tunes only the gap between stations, and that gap opens onto stranger places: a fog harbor where the foghorn has been silenced, a fair that reopens every thirty seconds, a motor court with plenty of room and no checkout, and a snow day that never ends. At the bottom waits a sign-off from 1987 that never finished.

With a librarian's niece who won't take anything on faith, a vacuum cleaner that woke up after eating a pager, and a coach who counts heads, Riley has to learn the one thing the whole family is worst at: how to end something properly.

Warm, funny, and quietly heartbreaking, Between Stations is a novel about grief, holding on, and saying good night like you mean it.