This Mystery We Are, Book 1: Dead Air

By Kira Lorne

Somewhere in rural Arkansas, a radio DJ disappeared mid-sentence.

The broadcast kept going.

For Cass, Beck, Wren, Junie, and one increasingly chonky snallygaster named Spork, this is a Tuesday. They are the team behind This Mystery We Are, a paranormal investigation YouTube channel with 3.6 million subscribers and a forty-two foot motorhome called The Harbinger. They go where the weird things are. They document. They survive. Occasionally they remember to eat.

The Thackerville case looks simple enough. A pirate radio tower. A missing broadcaster. A recording that cuts off mid-sentence and ends with something that sounds wet and wrong when you slow it down.

It isn't simple.

It never is.

This Mystery We Are: Episode 1 - Dead Air is the opening chapter of a paranormal-ish romance series about a found family on wheels chasing the unexplained across America. Part investigation, part relationship chaos, part road trip fever dream. There's genuine terror, genuine heart, a shapeshifter in a strawberry-milk sweatshirt, and a cryptid who farts at emotionally inconvenient moments.

The mystery is real. The team is realer.

And whatever is still broadcasting from that tower in Thackerville has been waiting a long time for someone to finally listen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9NTCPKN
• ISBN13: 9798235623781
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Black Orchid Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"