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Beautiful Threat: A Novel of a Disgraced Podcaster, a Buried Cold Case, and a Dangerous Man
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Voss Publishing
Published: Mar 23 2026
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sloane Mercer built her career on telling other people's darkest stories. Then one public scandal turns her into one.
Humiliated, watched, and one mistake away from losing everything, she travels to Harlow County to revisit the disappearance of Nora Cade, a teacher whose case was closed so quickly it feels less like failure than design.
At the edge of the lake, in a house full of silence, Sloane finds a hidden journal and a trail that refuses to stay buried. She also finds Cael Merritt, a man whose restraint feels more dangerous than open hostility. He offers help, but every conversation leaves her with the same uneasy thought: he is either the only person telling her the truth, or the one shaping it.
What begins as an investigation becomes a reckoning with shame, desire, and the stories powerful people force others to live inside. In Harlow County, memory can be manipulated, reputations can be dismantled, and the line between protection and possession is terrifyingly thin.
Beautiful Threat is an elegant, unsettling thriller about fear, longing, and the cost of wanting the wrong person to save you.
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