The Hum Beneath the Words – Kobo eBook

Nine words. Eleven seconds. One hum.

Three days after her sister’s funeral, Nora Valente receives a voicemail from a number that should be silent. It is Maya’s voice, and it carries a single warning: “Don’t trust the person holding your hand right now.”

Nora is a sound restorer in Lisbon. Her whole life is spent hearing what other people miss, and what she hears beneath her sister’s words is wrong. There are seams where the sentence was stitched together, and a faint hum that does not belong. Someone built this message. And the only people who could have are the ones closest to her.

As she follows the sound back to its source, every comfort in her life begins to sound like a lie, and the truth turns out to be much nearer than she ever imagined.

A tense, atmospheric novella of suspense, with a twist you will not hear coming.