You're On Mute

By Atlas Valley

Every Thursday at 4 p.m., four coworkers log into the same standing sync - same agenda nobody reads, same office gossip, same running joke about Blair's terrible internet connection. Maru's the new hire everyone teases for recording every meeting "just in case." June's the analyst about to walk someone out on Friday, over a discrepancy she's been quietly chasing all quarter. Theo's still salty about the promotion he didn't get. And Blair's connection is, as always, the worst thing on the call.

Then one Thursday, the call goes very wrong - on camera, in real time, in front of everyone.

Maru's recording, the one nobody ever thought she'd need, turns out to be the only proof that anything happened at all. And getting anyone to believe her means going up against a company, a police report, and a team of friends who all swear they know each other - after years of standing syncs, inside jokes, and one truly cursed internet connection.

A locked-room mystery where the room is a Zoom call - and the technology that's supposed to connect four coworkers is hiding something none of them saw coming. For readers of The Appeal and No Exit, and anyone who's ever muted themselves to laugh at a coworker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8M8XK5W
• ISBN13: 9798186840381
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"