Chapter Two

Tabitha S.

Dr. Judith "Jude" Calloway is a prison psychologist with a gift she never asked for: she hears the voices of the dead — victims whose deaths were closed wrong. When convicted killer Calvin Mercer takes back his confession to the 2011 drowning of Evelyn Marsh — a death ruled an accident — Jude starts hearing Evelyn herself. Her voice leads to another girl, Lorena Diaz, who drowned at the same river bend five years earlier, and to the quiet man who has been there for all of it: the jail's beloved chaplain, Moss, who "seats" the restless dead so the county never has to look too closely at how they died. To free the voices, Jude must make the living listen — before the chaplain seats her too. A Southern gothic suspense about buried girls, crooked closures, and the one woman who can still hear them. Complete — 20 chapters.