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House of Quiet Screams

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After years of struggling to survive and suppress the trauma that shaped her, a thirty year old single mother returns to her small hometown a place where secrets rot just beneath the surface and everyone remembers more than they admit. She hopes to rebuild a quiet life with her young son and husband, but the moment she crosses the threshold of her childhood home, long-buried memories begin to claw their way back. When a hidden letter surfaces one she doesn’t remember writing her reality begins to splinter. The letter is addressed to someone she swore she’d never speak to again. Someone dangerous. Someone she knows too well. As more clues emerge, she is forced to confront a truth she’s spent her whole life running from. Haunted by flashbacks, OCD compulsions, and a town that still refuses to take her trauma seriously, she begins to question what’s real and who she can trust. Even the people closest to her are hiding things, including her husband, whose past may be tangled in the very mystery she’s trying to unravel. In a house that holds more than memories and a town that whispers behind her back, she must face the terrifying question: is she losing her mind or finally uncovering it?House of Quiet Screams is a gripping emotional suspense novel about trauma, survival, and the power of facing the truth no matter how loud the silence has been.
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