After a devastating collapse and a loss that leaves her unable to trust even the world she can measure, Clara Whitaker leaves Half Moon Bay for the historic mountain town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. She takes an evening position at the Dimmick Memorial Library, hoping the quiet work of books and shelves will give her grief a shape she can survive.

Instead, the library basement gives her a mystery: a dust-covered Zenith Trans-Oceanic radio that should be silent, yet begins receiving fragments of music, voices, and moments that do not belong to any station. The signal returns with unnerving precision at 9:13 p.m., strongest in the basement, strongest when Clara is alone, and always threaded with songs tied to the life she thought had ended.

As Clara maps the rules of the impossible transmission, she must decide whether the radio is a bridge, a warning, or something far more dangerous: a signal that knows her well enough to imitate love. The deeper she listens, the more the line between memory, reality, and time begins to bend.

Static on the Oceanic is a haunting novel about grief, science, music, and the fragile connections that refuse to fade. Its companion playlist is offered in the back matter as an optional listening experience, but the story stands on its own: a mystery of sound, time, and the enduring frequencies of love.