Upmarket Fiction
Best Helper Means You Stayed
Blair Dunvegan
After the Band • Book Three · Book 3
Hold the Room The first thing Eli heard was the silence going wrong. Not quiet. Not peace. The ugly kind - a dead, electric pause where the theater should have been humming with preshow life and instead sounded like a room holding its breath under bad news. He was already moving before anybody called his name, headset hanging around his neck, flashlight between his teeth, one hand on the narrow booth door as the old Rialto shivered around him like a body waking from a nightmare.