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The Quieting
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 10 2026
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The women around Ginny Moody are changing.
They are quieter. More agreeable. Less willing to question the decisions being made for them.
At first, the shifts are easy to dismiss. A rewritten headline. An abandoned complaint. An apology that does not sound quite right. But when Ginny discovers that the changes began after her employer installed Work Well 360, a celebrated corporate wellness program, she starts asking questions powerful people do not want answered.
Her investigation leads to Dr. Jack McClain, a disgraced behavioral scientist haunted by the death of journalist Alva McPherson and the research he wishes he could erase. He may be the only person capable of helping Ginny uncover what Work Well is doing-and the one person with the most to hide.
As Ginny follows a trail connecting workplace wellness, pharmaceutical research, and institutions built to protect their own power, she discovers that the program was never designed simply to reduce stress.
It was designed to reduce resistance.
Now the women affected may be losing more than their anger. They may be losing the ability to recognize when a choice is no longer their own.
How do you fight something that makes you stop wanting to fight?
The Quieting is a gripping psychological conspiracy thriller about power, grief, accountability, and the dangerous line between protecting someone and controlling them.
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