Mercy’s Diner is open twenty-four hours a day.
But after midnight, there is one rule every employee must obey:
Never serve anyone who sits at Table Six.
When Lena Hart takes the night shift, she thinks it is only an old superstition—until a silent man in a dry black coat enters during a storm and asks for coffee.
By morning, one regular customer has vanished from the town’s memory.
And the receipt from Table Six now has Lena’s name on it.