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The Shared Calendar: A Domestic Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Series: The Domestic Systems Trilogy, Book 2
Publisher: Carter Bryson
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A shared calendar should keep a family organized.
Maya Weller's is trying to take her daughter away.
Maya Weller is used to managing custody exchanges, school reminders, therapy appointments, and the thousand invisible tasks that come with co-parenting a thirteen-year-old daughter.
Then an event appears on her shared family calendar.
Maya No-Show.
The problem is, Maya hasn't missed anything yet.
At first, it looks like a glitch. Then the calendar begins adding appointments for things that haven't happened, but soon do: missed pickups, school absences, therapy changes, custody exchanges, and official-looking records that make Maya seem unstable, negligent, and dangerous.
Her ex-husband Daniel insists the system is only reflecting what Maya is already doing. His mother Helena offers calm, polished concern. The school sees records. The court sees timestamps. And Sophie, Maya's daughter, is caught in the middle as every digital trace begins turning against the one person trying to protect her.
But Maya knows something is wrong.
Someone is using the ordinary machinery of family life against her: shared calendars, school portals, custody forms, account permissions, old devices, and the quiet language of stability. Every reminder becomes evidence. Every correction looks like denial. Every attempt to prove the truth makes Maya look more frantic.
And then Sophie finds something she was never meant to see.
A source map.
A plan.
A way to make a child's fear look like a choice.
To save her daughter, Maya must uncover who has been editing their family's reality before the next event on the calendar becomes permanent.
Because the most dangerous lies are not the ones shouted in anger.
They are the ones entered neatly, time-stamped, and accepted.
The Shared Calendar: A Domestic Psychological Thriller is Book Two of The Domestic Systems Trilogy, a chilling standalone domestic suspense novel about custody, coercion, family secrets, and the everyday technology we trust with our lives.
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