Romance Weekly - Short Stories of Love, Erotic and Paranormal Thrillers

She fixes broken things for a living. Eleven years of kintsugi — you never hide a break, you fill the seam with gold and make the wound the most beautiful part of the bowl.Three years ago the cove took Jonah, and gave back no body. They buried an empty box because the town needed somewhere to put its grief. A death you can bury is a break you can mend. A death with no body is a bowl with a piece simply gone.So she kept him. His place at the table, set every night. A lamp burning in the front window. And one bowl — the last thing they made together — that she mends in gold and takes down and breaks again, every night, because finishing it would mean letting him be finished.She thought she was mourning. She was pulling.Now the tide is returning things it should have kept, her mended pieces are cracking on their own, and there is a shape standing offshore in the fog where the water is over a man's head.Part 1 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The cutover was scheduled for the coldest night of the year. He told her four nights. It turned out to be one. He called in an hour early, and the calm was gone from the first word — no dispatcher voice, no flat even hand pressed over the panic. Just a man saying her name into the dark, and then the sentence he had never in eleven years been able to make himself say. I'm calling in an emergency. The emergency is me. So she did the one unforgivable thing. She left the board mid-shift, put the last live channel on reroute, and drove sixty miles into the worst cold in thirty years, following copper nobody had touched in decades toward a place the map swore didn't exist. He stayed on the line as long as the line lasted. The finale of Cold Line. Part 4 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The emergencies start sounding personal on the ninth night. A man alone in a cold building. Someone who hasn't eaten because the roads are closed. A car that won't start in the deep cold. He calls them all in the same flat, even voice, always on somebody else's behalf — and every address drifts a little closer to the Hollis base than the last. There was never anyone else out past the ridge. The man who has kept a county breathing on nights for eleven years cannot make himself say the one sentence: the person who needs help is me. Frankie knows the shape of that wound. It's her own, wearing a different coat. So she stops protecting the line. Part 3 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The thing erasing her is the only reason she can hear him. Frankie stops pretending it's atmospheric skip and goes looking for the man who built the board. Sal Ferreira is seventy-six and the last person alive who remembers the copper — and he knows the frequency by name. The linemen called it the ghost line: the old mutual-aid channel between two small stations that used to cover each other's worst nights, so neither one ever had to be alone in it. Both stations are being torn out in the same cutover. Same contractor, same week. And in the gap between one disconnection and the next, the copper is still live. He isn't a ghost. He's the last dispatcher at the twin station, sixty miles away, running out the same clock. Then she says something true, and the signal starts to eat itself. Part 2 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Frankie works the overnight board at North County dispatch — the last desk on the last frequency in a building the county has already decided to close. Eleven years of talking strangers through the worst minute of their lives, and never once finding out how it ended. It is the coldest winter in thirty years, and the copper is already coming out of the ground. Then, at seven minutes past three, on a channel that was cut and half dismantled three weeks ago, the dead static goes warm. A calm, competent man's voice asks her to roll someone warm out to the Hollis ridge. The vehicle is there. The driver is there. He never is. Part 1 of 4.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The dome finally breaks — Nora sees the rain coming three days out, and with it, the clock on the one wish she can no longer hold back. She knows that any night now she'll go under and dream Theo into staying, and wake to that washed-away smell and a man she can no longer remember falling for. She could keep him forever, made and warm and safe. Or she could do the one thing two people who live by scripts have never once done: refuse to build it, stand out in the open with no read and no exit, and find out — like everyone who has ever loved anyone — whether he stays on his own.The finale of the Wishful arc. There is no model that verifies a life. You stop trying to make them stay, stand out under a sky with no lid on it, and find out.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

For four days Nora runs her own mind like a containment operation — coffee, dull data, anything to keep from dreaming Theo closer, because she's understood the rule: she can only wish in the dark, against her own better self, and every wish takes the truest part of what she wanted. Then she learns Theo is the same animal in different weather — a man who's spent ten years getting out ahead of his own life so nothing can ever land on him unrehearsed. Two people who can't bear to be surprised, who can't tell if what they feel is real or just the safest move, deciding to stop checking and stand in it anyway. And that night, going under with no coffee left to save her, Nora feels the wish take shape: let me keep him. The one she can't afford to make. Episode 3 of the ongoing Wishful arc. The only wishes that come true are the ones you'd never, in daylight, have chosen.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Nora wakes to the smell of rain that isn't falling — and knows something she dreamed is already on its way. This time it's Mr. Adler, down on his kitchen floor in the heat, exactly as she saw it. Theo comes running with ice and a window unit and one quiet, devastating observation: she looked at that man like she'd done something to him. And in the long gray hours after, the thing Nora has spent weeks refusing finally comes apart — she isn't forecasting these losses. She's authoring them in her sleep, and each wish quietly takes the truest part of whatever she wished for. Which is why the dreams she's just started having about Theo terrify her most of all.Episode 2 of the ongoing Wishful arc. She spent her whole life believing she was the one being rained on. Turns out her hands were wet to the elbow the whole time.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Nora forecasts the weather for a living: she reads the models, finds the front before it arrives, and tells the city what's coming. She's an observer. She doesn't interfere. Then a heat dome parks over the city with no rain in sight, the building's air gives out, and her dreams start arriving a step ahead of her waking life — a woman on the train, a coworker who vanishes, small things coming true and the smell of rain that never falls. And at the tenants' meeting, the landlord sends a mediator named Theo Mercado: a man whose whole gift is finishing other people's sentences, who can't finish hers. Two people who can each read anyone — except each other. Episode 1 of the ongoing paranormal run. She's spent her whole careful life watching. She's about to learn she was never only watching.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The heat breaks every record, four counties on one failing wire, and somewhere a person like the woman Wren used to be is signing off on shedding the weakest zones. August is dying slow, taking the regional overload alone, and he asks her to let him be the one who pays. She refuses — because she finally sees that his fifteen years of martyrdom are her own disappearing act in a mirror: she hides by spreading the blame thin, he hides by swallowing all of it. So the deal isn't his sacrifice. It's that neither of them gets to vanish. In a four-county blackout they close the loop deliberately, and when he tries to spend himself empty she holds both ends and makes him take it back — the circuit running both ways, the overload grounded safe into the earth. The county holds. Nobody pays but them, and they chose it. The loop doesn't open again; they're fused, for good. It isn't cured. Every summer they'll do this again. But she stays in the room now — and so does he.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The loophole was a lie she told herself. Wren puts the outages back in the map she cleaned and reads what it's been saying since night one: the drain moves where she moves. August was never the hazard — he's the safety valve, and last night's closed loop didn't fix the fault. It charged it. When he asks how long she's been leaking, the truth she's never said aloud comes out of her — eleven dead, a blackout she signed, a baby in a unit that lost its cooling — at the exact moment a daylight brownout rolls toward a baby on Cedar Street. Two summers, one sentence. So she runs, and calls the distance penance. It's the same disappearance in a new column. And August texts: you said you were done running.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Wren drives back to the dark edge of town, and August stops pretending — he cut his own lines years ago and stranded himself so the cost falls only on him, and he says it with a pride she clocks but can't name yet. The data won't square: the drain leaks from the live grid toward his dead wire, like something out there is swallowing power. So she finds the loophole — wait for the nightly blackout, and take what they want when the lights are already gone and nobody pays extra for the dark. It works. In a total blackout they finally close the gap, and the current pours out of him into her like she's the ground he's never had, the dead acre lighting up around them. She thinks she's solved it. The next night, he's twelve miles away on a cut line, and the lights go out anyway.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Wren is a grid-stabilization engineer sent to a small town in week three of a killing heatwave, hunting the reason the lights keep failing in ways the models swear are impossible. Power doesn't drain into the ground like water. Except here it does — and the drain has a name. August stands where the streetlights die, apologizing for it, telling her to leave for her own good. When the whole county goes dark and there's nothing left but his voice and the heat and the current under his skin, she stops wanting to leave. He won't kiss her. People pay when the lights go out. She drives back out anyway.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

May Day is everything it should be—the garden showing off, visitors enchanted, flowers blooming on command. Daphne moves through it glowing, literally, the empathy and the celebration merging into something that lights her up from inside.At sunset, Matt leads her to the garden's gift: a bower of living vines and bioluminescent flowers, grown specifically for this moment. When she finally stops holding back, the entire property responds—five acres blooming at once, the garden celebrating the only way it knows how.Afterward, the choice is easy. She's staying. Not for the garden, not even for Matt—for herself. For the chance to be present in her own life, to feel things fully, to bloom alongside everything else.The growing season is just beginning.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The May Day festival is ten days away, and Daphne is trying to focus on logistics. The garden is not cooperating. Every thought about Matt makes something bloom. Every touch makes something fruit. The orchids have started arranging themselves in suggestive patterns.When she finally confronts him in the orchid house, she admits the truth: she's scared of wanting something this much. He kisses her like the world is ending, and the orchids stage their greatest performance yet.Then her phone buzzes. Festival crisis. Maypole emergency. And she runs.Three days of professional distance later, she finds him in the rose garden at sunset and stops running. When she tells him she wants this—really wants it, no spreadsheets—the entire garden lights up.Literally. Bioluminescence. The roses are glowing.Six days until the festival. And the garden has never been happier.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The garden is no longer being subtle. Paths reroute to force Daphne toward Matt. The jasmine releases intoxicating waves of scent whenever they're in the same room. And when she finally admits what she's feeling—that she can sense every plant's spring desire, and it's becoming indistinguishable from her own—the orchids bloom so dramatically that denial is no longer possible.Matt suggests the potting shed as neutral ground. It isn't. When they finally kiss, the dormant fall bulbs wake up and bloom six months early, surrounding them in an impossible spring.Two hours later, Daphne emerges covered in pollen, and the garden is radiating satisfaction. She's staying for the May Day festival. She might be staying longer than that.The garden has never been happier.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Daphne Laurel arrives in Connecticut to claim her inheritance: a sprawling botanical garden, a quaint cottage, and apparently a magical gift she didn't know she had. Within hours of stepping into the greenhouse, she's overwhelmed by a strange awareness—she can feel what the plants feel. And in May, what they feel is want.The handsome caretaker isn't helping. Neither is the vine that trips her directly into his arms, triggering a bloom cascade that makes her attraction embarrassingly visible.Her aunt's notes make the situation clear: the garden wants an heir. It's been waiting. And it's chosen the gardener as its candidate.Daphne should definitely leave. She's going to stay anyway.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The last day arrives, and Nora makes her choice—not from obligation, but from genuine desire. She wades into the sea and offers herself as keeper, not because she owes a debt but because she wants this life, this place, this possibility.The sea accepts. The balance is restored. And Jonah, for the first time in thirty years, walks across the property line without pain.He could go anywhere now. See the world he missed, find what remains of the life he lost. Instead, he chooses to stay. Not because he's bound, but because he's finally free to want something—and what he wants is her.Three months later, the lighthouse is operational again, the boundary is tended, and two people who spent their lives running from connection have finally found a place worth staying for.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Nora Blackwood returns to coastal Maine to settle her estranged father's estate. She expects a quick sale, a clean break from the cold man who never let her in. Instead, she finds a lighthouse keeper who's been there for thirty years without aging, a ledger documenting two centuries of impossible bargains with the sea, and a debt collector made of foam and salt water asking when payment will be rendered.Her mother's death, she learns, wasn't an accident. It was a balance collected. And her father's survival thirty years ago came at a price—a young fisherman named Jonah, claimed by the sea and bound to the property ever since.Now the debt has passed to Nora. She has one month to understand what she's inherited—or lose everything to the tide.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Ten days of controlled emptiness, and Elise is dying by inches. When a little girl's grief finally cracks her walls open, she discovers something new: magic that doesn't explode. Magic that just grows. She returns to the Hartfield Estate—the scene of her destruction—and finds Roman waiting. Together, they begin to shape the chaos into something intentional. A wild garden. A new beginning. A life that doesn't require her to be small. Three months later, the garden opens to the public. Elise stands at the center of something she created—not by controlling it, but by becoming it. She's finally learned the truth: she was never too much. She was just a garden waiting for the right conditions to bloom.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The Whitmore gala should have been Elise's triumph. For two perfect hours, it is—until her mother appears, and thirty years of suppressed rage finally ignites. The estate transforms into wilderness. Trees erupt through marble. Flowers cover everything. Three hundred guests flee in terror, and Elise's career burns to ash along with her careful reputation.Roman tells her about the fire that killed him—and the years he spent believing he was only capable of destruction. He asks her to see the devastation as a controlled burn, clearing space for new growth. But Elise can't hear him. Not yet. A week later, she's shut everything down. The magic, the feelings, the wildness. Her apartment is dead, and so is she. She got exactly what she wanted. She's never been more miserable.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Elise's apartment has become a greenhouse, and she's running out of time. Roman arrives to help, and what he teaches her isn't about control—it's about surrender. The magic isn't a curse; it's her. The part she was told was too much, finally demanding to exist.As they work together, Elise starts to remember: the childhood garden her mother paved over, the years of shrinking herself to fit, the grief she's been carrying without knowing its name.When she finally breaks down, flowers bloom from her skin—and Roman doesn't flinch. For the first time in thirty years, someone sees all of her and doesn't look away.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Elise Thorne's life is a masterpiece of control—color-coded calendars, contingency plans, an apartment so minimalist it barely looks lived in. Then the flowers start appearing. A violet in her bathroom tile. Wildflowers in her desk drawer. Morning glories climbing her lamp. Impossible blooms that no one else can see. When she meets Roman Castellanos, the landscaper hired for her biggest event of the year, he sees them too. More than that—he knows what they mean. The wild magic she's been carrying since childhood is waking up, and it won't stay contained much longer. For the first time in thirty years, Elise can't control what's growing inside her. And she's not sure she wants to.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Mira returns to the station with a question she's spent two days trying to answer: can she actually want someone? Not save them, not redeem herself—want them, as a person, in her life? When the frequencies align for the final time, she tells Ethan the truth: she doesn't know if she's capable of real connection. But she knows she wants to find out. She knows the thought of losing him feels like losing something she didn't know she needed. He tells her about Cass—not the tragedy, but the person. And somewhere in the listening, somewhere in the being present, the loop finally breaks. He arrives in 2024 grieving everything he's missed. She holds him without trying to fix it. And in the weeks that follow, two people who've never known how to be real with anyone learn to make new mistakes—together.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Mira drives to Ohio, to the abandoned station she's been dreaming about for eighteen years. She explores the building where Ethan has been trapped, finds his notebook full of decades of longing and despair, and prepares for something impossible: a real-time conversation with a man living in 1987. When the frequencies align, they finally speak without delay. He tells her how to break the loop—genuine presence, not performance. She tells him she's willing to lose everything she's built on his suffering. But Ethan asks her not to do it. Not out of guilt. Not out of obligation. If she's going to free him, he needs it to be because she actually wants him in her life. She has two days to answer a question she's spent thirty-five years avoiding: Can she actually want someone?Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Mira and Ethan develop an impossible communication—audio messages sent across thirty-seven years, asynchronous and strange. As their conversations deepen, she learns about his sister Cass, whose death led him to the transmitter that became his prison. He learns about the woman behind the performance—defended, detached, and more alone than she's ever admitted. But when Mira investigates her own podcast archives, she discovers a devastating pattern. Every genuine supernatural experience she's documented radiates from a single point: the station, the loop, Ethan himself. Her entire career—the success, the reputation, the "gift" for finding real stories—has been built on his suffering. She's not just his anchor. She's his parasite. And she doesn't know if the woman she was a week ago would have cared.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Mira Oxton built a podcast empire interviewing people about their supernatural experiences. She doesn't believe any of it—the empathy she performs is just that, a performance. Then an anonymous audio file arrives: a man's voice from 1987, saying her name, describing a week-long time loop he's lived for thirty-seven years. He claims she's the reason he's trapped. As Mira digs into the mystery, she uncovers a missing persons case, a grieving brother, and a dream she's been having since she was seventeen—a dream about an abandoned radio station and a voice she chose not to hear. She doesn't believe in the supernatural. But she's starting to believe in him.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

June remembers the crash—the ice, the impact, the moment she stopped being alive. And now she and Theo stand at mile marker 23, waiting for 11:47 PM, when the loop either breaks or binds them forever.To escape, June has to stop running from death. But after one day of actually living—the ocean, the road trip, a man who's loved her for seven years—she doesn't want to let go. She wants to hold on.This time, when the crash happens, she has a reason to survive. And when she wakes up in a hospital on February 3rd, she discovers that sometimes holding on is exactly the right choice.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

June Alcott has been reliving February 2nd for three years. The same disastrous wedding. The same vomiting bride. The same endless, numb repetition. She stopped trying to escape a long time ago. Then she sees a man she's never seen before—in 1,095 loops, something genuinely new. When she corners him, he admits the impossible: he's been looping too. For seven years. Theo shows her what the loop can be—not a prison, but a possibility. They drive to the ocean she's never seen, eat at a diner where only he remembers the waitress's name, and for one day, June feels something other than survival. But Theo has been hiding something. On the original February 2nd, he was the paramedic who held her hand while she died. And he's spent seven years avoiding her because he couldn't keep the promise he made.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The polar vortex breaks, and Callum fades—disappearing in the middle of a confession that shakes Vera to her core. She's been the lost soul all along. Frozen for five years at the threshold of a grief she refused to feel.Alone for the first time since they met, Vera finally does what she's been avoiding: she goes to a bridge, and she grieves. Really grieves. The ugly, broken, thawing kind. And in the breaking open, something else breaks free. Callum returns—not as a winter walker, but as something new. His task is complete. The last lost soul has been guided home. And for the first time in 180 years, he's free to live.Together, they step into February. Into a future neither of them expected. Into whatever comes next.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The coldest night in a generation descends, and Callum is more present than he's been in decades. He takes Vera into the deep cold—the realm where winter walkers exist—and shows her the fading spirits of those who came before him. A glimpse of his future, if the winters keep warming.Together, they find James, a grieving widower who walked onto a frozen lake searching for his dead wife. As Vera guides him back from the threshold, Callum finally admits the truth: there's a way to save him, but it would bind Vera's life to his existence forever.She chooses to stay anyway. And in the deep cold, surrounded by the ghosts of forgotten guardians, they finally stop fighting what's been building between them. But the vortex is breaking. And they have one night left to find another way.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The temperature rises, and Callum fades—leaving Vera alone with questions and the slow ache of anticipatory grief. She spends days researching winter walkers, learning about the spirits who've disappeared as the world has warmed.When the cold returns, so does Callum—with another lost soul who needs their help. Delia is a college student frozen in place, unable to remember how to live. Callum can warm the room, but only Vera can reach her with words.As they guide Delia back from the edge, Callum reveals what it cost him to watch his daughter live an entire life he couldn't share. And with a polar vortex approaching, he asks Vera for the only thing he's ever wanted: someone to walk beside him while he still can.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Vera Holloway has spent five years surviving Minneapolis winters, punishing herself with cold she thinks she deserves. When a new client doesn't show for his appointment, she finds him dying in his car—and meets the impossible man who led her there.Callum is a winter walker, a spirit bound to the coldest days, guiding lost souls through January's darkest moments. He's done it for nearly 180 years. But the winters are getting warmer, and he's fading.Vera can see him. Touch him. And she might be the only person who can save him—if she can figure out how before the temperature rises and he disappears for good.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Margot Sullivan walks into a bar that shouldn't exist on New Year's Eve—and discovers each drink takes her back to a pivotal moment she's spent decades regretting. The night she didn't confess her feelings. The career she didn't pursue. The goodbye she didn't get to say.But the mysterious bartender guiding her through her past knows more than he should. When midnight approaches, Margot finally recognizes him—and learns the truth about the guilt she's carried for twenty years.Some doors only open once a year. And some truths can only be spoken at the threshold between what was and what will be.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Loop ninety. Sloane remembers everything—and she's done playing by the Collector's rules.Instead of meeting Elias at the gas station, she goes directly to mile marker 47, where the loop closes. Using her threshold sight, she finally sees the truth: the debt binding them isn't one-sided. It can be balanced.When the Collector arrives to stop her, Sloane makes her choice—not to die, not to serve, but to bind herself to Elias as completely as he bound himself to her. Equal sacrifice. Mutual love. A debt that owes itself.The loop shatters. And for the first time, Sloane sees Christmas morning.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Eighty-nine loops in, Sloane's powers have evolved into something unprecedented: threshold sight, the ability to see between moments. She's remembering almost everything now—including the fact that she's falling in love with Elias.But the Collector has noticed her transformation. It appears with an offer: serve it forever and live, or die her final death. There is, it admits, a third option—but it requires Sloane to choose death willingly.When Elias admits he's known this all along, Sloane refuses to accept any of the Collector's terms. In the moment before her next death, she glimpses something new: a thread connecting her to Elias. And with it, the beginning of a plan.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Forty-seven loops in, Sloane has developed a desperate system: writing notes on her skin, hoping fragments survive the reset. Tonight, more memories stick than ever before—and she arrives at the gas station early, ready for answers.Elias finally reveals the truth. He's a debt-walker, bound for nearly two centuries to an ancient entity called the Solstice Collector. When he found Sloane dying on Christmas Eve, he broke every rule to save her—and trapped them both in an endless loop instead.But something is changing. Sloane is remembering more. And in the moment before impact, she glimpses the Collector itself.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Sloane Marchetti just wants to survive another Christmas Eve alone. After slipping out of her office holiday party early, she makes an inexplicable stop at a gas station—where a stranger is waiting. He knows her name. He knows where she's going. And he knows she's about to die.Elias claims he's watched her die over three hundred times, trapped in an endless loop that resets every midnight. Sloane doesn't believe him. She gets back in the car anyway.When she wakes up at the start of the same night, she begins to realize the impossible might be true.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The Gratitude Feast begins with forty-three seasoned guests ready to be consumed, but Nora and James's emotional immunity disrupts the ritual. When the ancient entity arrives, they discover it's been starving on synthetic emotion for decades, craving the real gratitude the Blackwoods forgot how to provide. By cooking genuine emotion together - combining their gifts with even Adrian's skill - they satisfy the true covenant and save the town. Adrian leaves to find his authentic self while Nora and James become the new keepers of Westbrook's harvest tradition, bound together in love and purpose, serving real emotion to a town learning to feel again.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Discovering her grandmother's journal reveals a horrifying pattern - the Blackwoods have been preparing people with the gift as Thanksgiving offerings for generations. As Ben's betrayal hands Adrian the inn for his Gratitude Feast, James and Nora desperately try a dangerous solution: cooking together to create emotional antibodies. Their combined power creates something beautiful and genuine that breaks through Adrian's false seasonings, but with the feast only three days away and dozens of people marked for consumption, they must decide whether to save the town or poison the entity it depends on for prosperity.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Adrian's seven-course seduction dinner delivers exactly what he promised - emotions crafted like cuisine, each dish making Nora fall deeper under his spell. From oysters laced with anticipation to chocolate infused with surrender, she experiences manufactured desire so intense it overrides her judgment. After a night that leaves her hollowed out and addicted, she returns to find James's simple breakfast and genuine concern. But the damage is done - she's craving Adrian's false emotions like a drug, and with a mysterious Thanksgiving feast approaching, she realizes she's being prepared for something darker than just seduction.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Food critic Nora Warren returns to her family's failing Hudson Valley inn and discovers she's not alone in her ability to taste emotions in food. James Brennan, the inn's sincere chef, shares her gift and offers genuine connection through simple, honest cooking. But when Adrian Blackwood arrives with soup that makes her taste manufactured desire, Nora finds herself choosing intoxicating manipulation over quiet truth. As she agrees to dinner at Adrian's restaurant despite James's warnings, she doesn't realize she's being seasoned like a dish for something ancient that feeds on emotion every Thanksgiving.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Halloween night brings the final confrontation as Mara and Ethan use their merged electromagnetic field to power Salem's massive trap. Standing as bait in the center of the festival, they must hold the entity while every light in Salem feeds power through them. With the help of the trapped women's consciousness fighting from within, they destroy the entity forever. Free at last to give in to their desire, their consummation as permanently merged beings literally blows the power grid. One year later, they've embraced their new existence as supernatural investigators and guardians of Salem, bound together in a love that transcends normal human connection.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The truth about Salem's Halloween Festival shatters everything - it's a massive electromagnetic trap that needs Mara and Ethan as bait. When the entity takes Lily in broad daylight, wearing the faces of its victims, they're forced to trigger their complete electromagnetic merger to save her. Now permanently linked as one consciousness in two bodies, sharing every thought and sensation, they must learn to exist in their new reality. With the entity wounded but not destroyed, Halloween night will be their final test - not as two people fighting together, but as something entirely new.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

Discovering Rebecca's hidden journal reveals the terrible truth - the electromagnetic connection between Mara and Ethan is exactly what the entity wants. When passion finally overcomes caution in the abandoned Witch House, their first kiss creates a bond so powerful it draws the entity directly to them. Now physically unable to let go of each other as the thing feeds on their connection, Mara and Ethan must find a way to break free before they're consumed entirely. With more women disappearing and Halloween approaching, the line between desire and destruction has never been thinner.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

The electromagnetic connection between Mara and Ethan explodes into something neither can control when they finally touch, sharing memories, desires, and the ghostly traces of the missing women. As Lily develops her own dangerous attraction to Marcus, the four must work together when they discover something ancient is actively hunting them through Salem's streets. With Halloween approaching and their defenses weakening, Mara learns that the intense desire she feels isn't just supernatural chemistry—it's bait for something that feeds on women like them.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

True crime podcaster Mara Chen arrives in Salem to investigate three October disappearances, but when she meets Ethan Blackwood, she discovers the impossible - she can hear the electromagnetic echoes of the missing women. As an undeniable attraction builds between them, Mara learns she might possess the very ability that makes women targets. With her sister Lily arriving and showing similar symptoms, Mara must decide if the dangerous pull she feels toward Ethan is supernatural recognition or genuine desire, all while something that hunts their kind awakens for October.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

With a quarter million New Yorkers under supernatural control and marching toward the radio district, Lyra and Kai race to stop the Council of First Voices from using a massive transmission array to rewrite human consciousness across North America. As the Council reveals their plan to eliminate free will in favor of perfect unity, Lyra faces the ultimate temptation: unlimited power to fix every human problem at the cost of human choice.When the Council's amplifier connects her to millions of minds, she experiences what it would feel like to remake the world according to her will, but Kai's frequency anchoring her to humanity helps her see the trap for what it is. In a climactic confrontation that challenges the very nature of power and connection, Lyra chooses to use the transmission array not to control but to liberate, sending a message of free will and self-determination that breaks the Council's hold over the city. As the transcended Sirens dissolve under the weight of an emotion they'd forgotten—love—Lyra and Kai must navigate what it means to have saved the world while falling for each other across the impossible frequencies that bind them together.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

After using her untrained Command Voice to compel armed agents into forgetting their existence, Lyra learns the terrifying truth about her ancestry: she's descended from the White Siren, a woman so powerful that the Order was formed specifically to stop her. As Kai reveals that her abilities could rival those of the reality-altering Siren who nearly destroyed Salem, their supernatural connection deepens into something that transcends normal attraction. But when the Council of First Voices—transcended Sirens existing between dimensions—contacts Lyra through impossible means, they offer her a choice: embrace unlimited power or remain trapped by human limitations.Their recruitment attempt is revealed as a distraction when thousands of New Yorkers begin moving in synchronized precision toward the radio district, all under supernatural compulsion. With sunset approaching and a city-wide broadcast planned from her own station, Lyra must choose between fleeing to safety with Kai or facing an enemy whose power dwarfs her own. The lesson the Council promised is about to begin, and the entire tri-state area hangs in the balance.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]

As Lyra flees through New York's predawn streets with mysterious Kai Thorne, she learns the devastating truth about her nature: she's a Siren, one of the last of an ancient bloodline whose voices can compel truth and obedience. While Kai reveals his own supernatural heritage as a "Listener" tasked with monitoring dangerous voices, their growing attraction creates a dangerous resonance between their abilities.When Kai confesses he's been listening to her broadcasts for eight months and may be falling in love with her voice, Lyra must grapple with whether their connection is real or supernatural compulsion. But before she can learn to control her awakening abilities, the Order tracks them to Kai's secret safe house, forcing Lyra to make an impossible choice: use the most dangerous Siren technique she's never been trained for, or watch both of them die. As armed agents storm the building, Lyra must find her Command Voice and pray she doesn't destroy the man trying to save her.Become a premium subscriber! (no ads and no feed drops). For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING. You also get 25+ other series from comedy to paranormal, royals, romance, trivia, politics, movies, music, murder, sports, travel, religion, spirituality, celebrity gossip and feuds, consisting of THOUSANDS OF SHOWS AD-FREE! (it’s only $4.99 a month with a free-trial month) PLUS, subscribers get offers like early show releases and subscriber-only shows. Go to Caloroga.com for all our shows!Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there’s free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is [email protected]