The Hush List
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Bellmere, the women don't post warnings.
They whisper them.
When newly divorced Kate Brennan moves with her teenage daughter to an affluent lakeside town, she expects awkward neighbors, old-money politics, and too many polished smiles. She does not expect to be quietly handed a secret list of men women are told to avoid.
Some names are unsurprising.
Some are explosive.
Two are impossible.
One is her dead brother, Connor, who drowned in Bellmere twenty years ago after a night the town still refuses to explain. The other is her ex-husband, a man with no reason to be connected to Bellmere at all.
Before Kate can confront anyone, the woman who gave her the list is found dead, the original document vanishes, and every elegant house on the lake seems to be hiding a different version of the same lie.
As Kate digs deeper, she discovers that Bellmere's private warning system was never just about protecting women. It was also about protecting the right men, burying the wrong truths, and teaching each new generation how to survive danger without ever naming it aloud.
Now Kate is running out of time.
Because someone is still tending the old story.
Someone is still willing to search, threaten, trap, and burn for it.
And if Kate exposes what really happened at Grey Dock, Bellmere won't be the only thing that breaks.
The Hush List is a sleek, emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about wealth, silence, female loyalty, and the deadly cost of letting a town choose the wrong version of the truth.
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