The Numbers Show: A Standalone Ghost Signal Ops Romantic Suspense
R.A. Mariana
A Standalone Military Romantic Suspense
One broadcast. One deadly code. One man ordered to silence her—until he chooses to protect her instead.
Mara Voss hosts a late-night podcast devoted to eerie radio myths, unsolved signals, and the strange places where fact starts to feel like fiction. It’s meant to be harmless atmospheric entertainment for insomniacs and conspiracy lovers.
Until one “fictional” episode matches a real classified trigger sequence.
Within hours, her listeners are being doxxed for trying to solve her puzzle. A rival podcaster is attacked. And Mara’s inbox fills with coordinates that make no sense—until one of them leads to a kill site.
Jude Hale hears her voice long before he ever sees her face.
A SIGINT specialist trained to intercept illegal transmissions, Jude recognizes the danger immediately: Mara’s broadcast has awakened a dormant spy network that now believes she is their handler. His job is simple—contain the leak, lock down the source, make sure it never happens again.
Then the orders change.
Erase the source.
Erase Mara.
But Jude doesn’t follow them.
Instead, he goes rogue—and drags Mara into the only kind of safety he can offer: movement, secrecy, and the hard truth. On the run across cities and frequencies, they’re forced into a dangerous alliance, decoding messages under pressure and staying one step ahead of professional cleanup teams. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that the real threat isn’t the shadowy network responding to Mara’s voice.
It’s the agency determined to bury the truth by burying her.
As the clock ticks down and pieces of Mara’s past begin to surface, their connection sharpens in the most unexpected way: through whispered comms, steady instructions in the dark, and trust built moment by moment under fire.
Because this time, the most dangerous signal isn’t the one on the air.
It’s the one between them.
