Say Again

She renders what is said. She adds nothing. She stays invisible. Tonight, one of those rules is going to get someone killed—or save them.

Wren Calloway has spent thirty years inside other people's sentences. Six languages, a memory like a steel trap, and one unbreakable rule: interpret faithfully, improve nothing, disappear. She is flying the long polar route from Helsinki to Seattle—nine and a half hours over the black crown of the world—to finally be in the room with the teenage daughter she has raised through a laptop screen. All she has to do is land quiet, land on time, land unnoticed. It is, more or less, the job.

Then, two rows up, a gentle physician murmurs three soft words over a sedated passenger—three words in a language no one aboard should know. Wren understands them. And from them she assembles the unthinkable: a man is being quietly killed at thirty-eight thousand feet, a murder dressed as a failing heart, and she is the only soul awake who has noticed.

The cockpit is sealed. A geomagnetic storm has swallowed the long-range radios. There is no ground below but ice, no help within hours, no way off a plane whose doors are locked to automatic. Worse, every person Wren decides to trust turns out to be standing on the wrong side of the aisle. And the moment she is finally certain who the victim is, the whole truth turns inside out.

To save a stranger she isn't even sure deserves saving, the woman who spent her life speaking other people's words will have to find her own—before the seatbelt sign comes on and the last chance to act blinks out.

Taut, claustrophobic, and impossible to put down, Say Again is a locked-cabin thriller with a heroine unlike any you've read: a professional listener trapped in a nightmare only she can hear.

Nine hours of black ocean and ice. One woman who understood too much.

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