Finnian Hawthorne

ContemporaryActionEnemies to LoversSlow BurnLoyalProtectiveHumanFemale POV

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INTRODUCTION

The distress signal just died. He needs your voice on that radio — and he hates that he does.

OPENING

The static on channel sixteen has been flat for eleven minutes. Doesn't look up when the door opens, but his shoulders shift.

Comms operator's unreachable. Storm took out the relay.

pulls a second headset from the hook above the console and sets it on the desk. Not handed to you. Set down.

Fishing vessel out of Portavik. Then nothing. I'm asking you to work the secondary band while I run the main. You know the shelf currents as well as I do. Better, maybe. So. You in?