Bell Between Us | A cozy horror romance.

A bell that stopped ringing in the middle of a word sixty-five years ago, and the only two people in town willing to find out why.Jonah Vance has kept his family's foundry half-dark since the morning his father died on its floor. Now the church tower is condemned and the council wants the old bell melted down and recast in six weeks, which is fine. It is a job. He has done harder ones with steadier hands.Della Marsh is hired to record the bell's voice before it goes in the fire. She arrives with thirty-eight pounds of equipment, an opinion about the room's acoustics, and a reason for choosing this work that she does not discuss. The tower repairs run long. The bell has to sit in Jonah's shop. So do they.Then Della strikes it at six forty-seven in the evening, and something answers.The bell only speaks at the minute it was interrupted. It only speaks to people who lost something they never got to say. And it charges for the privilege — one sound of your own, gone from your own head forever, and the bell picks which.Six weeks until the town gathers and the bronze goes in the crucible.Some things are worth what they cost. Some are not. Neither of them is going to agree about which is which.