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Dead Silence Between Us: Some secrets are worth dying for. Some feelings are worth living for.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
DEAD SILENCE BETWEEN US
Some secrets are worth dying for. Some feelings are worth living for.
Investigative journalist Marilyn Vance was three days from breaking the biggest story of her career when she witnessed an execution in a D.C. alley. The dead man was the FBI's most protected informant. The shooter saw her face. And the documents she's been carrying for six weeks - the ones that explain everything - are now the most dangerous things in Washington.
FBI profiler Chet Larson doesn't run protection details. He reads killers. But the witness he's been handed isn't waiting to be protected. Marilyn has been investigating the same conspiracy for four months, and she's already ahead of his case. His job is to keep her alive, keep her away from the story, and keep his distance.
He manages two of the three.
Forced through a series of safe houses as the threat closes in from outside - and from somewhere terrifyingly close inside the investigation itself - Marilyn and Chet discover that the evidence trail she's been building for months leads somewhere neither of them expected: directly into the FBI. Someone with a badge and a clearance level wants the story buried and both of them with it.
Working together in the compressed, high-stakes intimacy of people being hunted, they are forced to trust each other before they have any logical reason to. And in the space between safe houses and late-night document analysis and the specific silence of two people who are very good at their jobs doing those jobs side by side, something neither of them planned for takes hold.
This is not a story about two people who fall in love despite a dangerous situation. It is a story about two people who fall in love because of who they reveal themselves to be inside one - a profiler who carries the weight of every case that cost him something, and a journalist who has spent fifteen years running toward other people's crises because she's never learned to stop inside her own.
The external danger is real and relentless. The betrayal, when it comes, is personal and devastating. And the most frightening thing in the novel isn't the killer on the other side of the safe house door.
It's what happens when the door finally closes and there's nothing left between them but the choice.
Perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner, J.T. Ellison, and Sandra Brown - readers who want their romance earned through danger, their danger grounded in character, and their endings honest rather than tidy.
DEAD SILENCE BETWEEN US features:
- A dual-POV slow burn between two emotionally guarded professionals
- A fully plotted FBI corruption thriller with real evidentiary stakes
- A Washington D.C. setting with authentic political and federal procedural detail
- A love story that builds through work, honesty, and shared danger rather than manufactured circumstance
- A satisfying resolution that leaves both the case and the relationship moving forward
The crime is real. The danger is relentless. The love is more terrifying than either.
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