The Listening Room. The Hollow Archive, #2

Seven years ago, Caleb Voss called 911 from a wrecked truck during a storm and told the operator exactly where he was. The county record said he was confused. Nora Vale has spent years living with that call. She left dispatch, moved into records, and built a quieter life around files, procedures, and the small mercy of not having to answer ringing phones. But when the abandoned emergency communications center is scheduled for demolition, a sealed box surfaces inside the old records cage with Caleb's name on it.
The building should be empty. The phones should be dead. The listening room should have been sealed for years. As Nora returns to the place where Caleb's final call was first examined, old recordings begin surfacing in pieces: missing audio, altered summaries, hidden operator channels, and warnings left behind by a dispatcher who understood that some rooms do more than preserve the past. The deeper Nora goes, the harder Caleb's call fights to escape the version the county accepted.
His parents know he was not confused. Nora knows the record is wrong. And somewhere inside the old communications center, the room that listened to him die is still waiting for the final review to end. The Listening Room is Book Two in The Hollow Archive, a connected supernatural horror series about places that hold on to grief, guilt, and unfinished pain until the truth begins speaking back.