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The Silent Game
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Djs Legacy Incorporated
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Melissa Summers finally begins rebuilding her life after devastating loss, hiring a new babysitter for one quiet night feels like a small step toward normalcy.
Rachel arrives with a warm smile, a church flyer, and the kind of calm confidence any mother would trust.
But Rachel isn't who she says she is.
And this isn't a normal babysitting job.
Inside the Summers home, Juliet watches everything. The routines. The children. The rhythms of a family she believes should have been hers. Shaped by abandonment, neglect, and a childhood spent waiting for someone who never came back, Juliet doesn't want money-or gratitude.
She wants belonging.
As the night unfolds, small moments turn unsettling. Games become tests. Discipline becomes control. Affection blurs into obsession. While Melissa enjoys a rare evening out, her children are left navigating a house that no longer feels safe-and a babysitter who didn't come to watch them.
She came to stay.
The Silent Game is a chilling psychological thriller that explores identity, trauma, and the dangerous hunger to be chosen. Told with escalating tension and haunting intimacy, the novel asks how far someone will go to become the life they believe they were denied-and what happens when silence becomes the most powerful weapon of all.
Because some secrets can't be spoken.
And some games don't end when the night is over.
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