What Silence Keeps

She fell in love with a woman who was hiding the truth from her

von William Lacroix

346 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Eight months after the end of a ten-year relationship with Lauren-her former lover and still her partner on the true-crime podcast Sunshine Noir-Avery leaves Fort Lauderdale for a few quiet days in Miami Beach. She wants distance, sunlight, and enough silence to figure out what comes next.Then she meets Sasha at Haulover Beach.Sasha is a photographer: beautiful, self-possessed, observant, and impossible to read. Their attraction is immediate, intimate, and dangerously easy. But before their first day together is over, Avery realizes Sasha already knows more about her than she admitted. She recognizes Sunshine Noir, even though Avery never told her the name of the show.At the same time, an anonymous message arrives at the podcast. Someone claims to know what happened to Ava Morgan, a twenty-eight-year-old woman who vanished three years earlier, leaving behind her car, a missing phone, and no clear explanation.What begins as a reopened cold case quickly becomes personal.A second woman, Claire Sanders, disappears. Old photographs reveal that Sasha knew Claire. She also spent time at Tide House, an exclusive oceanfront property connected to Ava's past-and she has been lying about it. Suddenly, Avery is forced to confront an impossible contradiction: the woman she is falling for is becoming part of the very investigation she should be approaching with professional distance.As Avery and Lauren dig deeper, Tide House reveals a darker history of hidden cameras, secret archives, private relationships, stolen images, and people who convinced themselves that silence was a form of protection. Every discovery raises another question. Every answer exposes another lie. And Sasha's connection to Ava is far more intimate than Avery first imagined.Meanwhile, Lauren is never truly out of the picture. Ten years of love cannot be erased by eight months apart, and the investigation forces Avery to confront feelings she thought she had already buried. Soon she is caught between a woman whose past she cannot trust and a woman whose place in her heart was never completely empty.Against the heat, beaches, luxury homes, and hidden shadows of South Florida, Avery must decide how far she is willing to go for the truth-and whether love can survive once every secret has finally been exposed.WHAT SILENCE KEEPS is a sensual romantic suspense novel about women, desire, jealousy, memory, and the dangerous difference between privacy and deception. A story where bodies may be freely revealed, but the truth remains carefully hidden.She fell in love with a woman who was hiding the truth from her.Now she has to decide whether she can still love her once she knows everything.

• ISBN: 9798192241448
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp