Hollow Bend has always been the kind of town where old things break and people call it bad luck.
Then Avalon Reyes receives a text from an unknown number: Tomorrow at 4:12 the light on Fenwick Crossing goes out. Don't be under it.
At exactly 4:12, the light falls.
The next warning predicts a car crash. Then another points to a sabotaged fire-suppression system. Each message arrives before the disaster, and each failure has been carefully engineered to look ordinary.
Avalon starts writing everything down. The warnings.
The times. The names. The questions. Her notebook becomes an almanac of disasters that have not happened yet.
But the messages are connected to something Hollow Bend buried years ago: the abandoned Lathe Institute, a vanished research program, and Avalon's missing sister.
The Almanac of Small Disasters is a tense mystery-thriller about a young woman racing against a hidden system that has spent years turning murder into coincidence - and about the cost of asking the second question when everyone else has already accepted the first answer...