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We Are All Guilty Here: The Dark Truth Behind the Perfect Neighborhood (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher: Claire Mercer
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Whispering Pines, safety is a religion. But on the night the power grid goes dark, the eyes turn off-and a boy vanishes without a trace.
Seeking a clean slate after a toxic divorce, Elena Vance moves into an immaculate rental in Whispering Pines, an exclusive gated community nestled in the foggy Pacific Northwest. Surrounded by pristine lawns, glass-fronted mansions, and an all-seeing network of smart-home cameras, it is advertised as the safest place in the state to start over.
Then comes the night of the Annual Blackout Drill.
For sixty agonizing minutes, the community's master power grid is intentionally cut for a system test, plunging the luxury neighborhood into pitch-black darkness. When the lights flick back on, sixteen-year-old Leo Sterling is gone.
Desperate to prove she had nothing to do with the disappearance, Elena digs into her smart-hub's offline server logs. What she uncovers is a chilling digital trail of altered timestamps, erased video loops, and hidden motives linking every neighbor on the street to the missing boy.
Worst of all, her own fitness tracker logs a midnight walk during the blackout-a walk Elena has no memory of taking.
As paranoia turns neighbor against neighbor and the police close in, Elena realizes that in a neighborhood built on constant surveillance, everyone is hiding a crime. And to find the truth, she must face the dark gap in her own mind before the person watching her strikes again.
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