The Quiet Undoing
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerRomance
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Kathy Whitcomb
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a house that smells of lemons and perfection, something is quietly unraveling.
When Leo is forced to leave his mother behind in the pristine world of her new husband, Kevin Alden, he knows something isn't right. Sarah was once strong, vibrant, and fiercely independent. Now she is anxious, withdrawn, and slipping further from herself each day. Kevin calls it stress. His mother, Eleanor, calls it illness. But Leo sees something far more dangerous: a pattern.
As he begins to dig into Kevin's past, Leo uncovers a chilling history-two former wives, both isolated, both declared unstable, both erased from their own lives. With the steady support of his father, Leo pieces together a disturbing blueprint of control masked as devotion, protection disguised as love.
But Kevin is always one step ahead.
What begins as a son's desperate attempt to save his mother becomes a high-stakes battle of strategy, manipulation, and psychological warfare. With time running out and Sarah's grip on reality weakening, Leo must outmaneuver a man who has perfected the art of quiet domination-and a woman who has helped him build it.
The Quiet Undoing is a gripping psychological thriller about coercive control, the fragility of perception, and the courage it takes to challenge a carefully constructed lie. Tense, unsettling, and deeply human, it asks a haunting question:
What happens when the person trying to save you is the one pulling you under?
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