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The Quiet We Kept
Paperback
Series: Kept, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kim and Dave Stratton have the kind of marriage other people envy: two kids, a house in the suburbs, eleven years of steady, ordinary love. What they don't have is honesty. Not the whole kind.
Kim carries a secret from the night a dying patient asked her for something no nurse is legally allowed to give, and got it. Dave carries one from half a world away, from a night he watched a coworker die and chose a lie that would let him keep the life he was building.
Neither has ever told the other. Neither ever planned to.
Then a new administrator arrives at their daughter's elementary school, warm, watchful, and far too interested in the Strattons for it to be coincidence. As old records resurface, old contacts start asking questions, and a threat neither of them saw coming closes in on the one thing they'd do anything to protect, Kim and Dave are forced to confront the fact that surviving this means finally telling each other, and themselves, the truth.
But some truths, once spoken, can't be taken back. And not everyone circling this family is who they appear to be.
Perfect for readers who loved:
- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
- Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
- The Only One Left by Riley Sager
- The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
A slow-burn, twist-after-twist domestic thriller about the marriages we build on silence, and what it takes to finally break it.
Warning: once you start, you won't want to put it down.
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