Don't Let Him Drive

At 3:07 a.m. on the day of the wedding rehearsal, Mara Vance receives the message she has learned to expect from her dead sister's number: don't let Daniel drive you home. Over the next five hours of rain she tests the warning two ways, learns what her fiancé keeps in a storage unit, hears someone breathing on Nora's line, and discovers that the sister's closest friend has been paying for that line all along. By eight in the morning she has a confession or a locked room — and the sender is still out there.

The same day ends where it began for Mara: standing beside Daniel in a cold church hall while rain runs down the leaded glass. Priya is doing the flowers, a message arrives at an hour it has never used before, and everything it names begins to happen in the room while Mara smiles and counts who could have sent it.