The Signal Breaks

By Jb Waldrop

The Signal Breaks

A Road That Shouldn't Exist. A Voice That Won't Let Go.

Rowan Ellis swore she'd never return to the Sinclair gas station-the place where her seven-year-old brother vanished without a trace. But when the static comes back, humming through the Oklahoma tallgrass like a broken frequency, Rowan knows the truth: Eli didn't run away. He was taken.

By the Mile.

It's not a road. It's a broadcast. A glitch in reality that stretches into an endless ribbon of obsidian asphalt, where streetlights flicker like dying stars and shadows wear human shapes. Every mile walked pulls Rowan deeper into a nightmare of corrupted memories, ghost stations, and rules that rewrite themselves. And at the center of it all waits the Highway Man-a sentinel of the signal, patient and silent, watching for the moment she stops walking.

To save Eli, Rowan must cross the Static Bridge, descend into the Between, and face the Thing Beneath-the entity that knows her name and hungers for her identity. But the Mile doesn't just take people. It takes pieces of you. And the longer Rowan stays on the road, the more she feels herself becoming part of the broadcast.

Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Silent Hill, and cosmic horror with a psychological edge, The Signal Breaks is a haunting, high-definition descent into a world where reality is just another channel-and someone is always holding the remote.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GH6KLKWJ
• ISBN13: 9798243950848
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"