The Sound Between Us

Everyone on the island says he killed his wife. She's the only one who wants the truth - and the only one falling for him.

Nora Quill restores pianos. She reads a room the way she reads an instrument: by listening for the note that isn't true. So when she inherits a house on a fog-bound island in Puget Sound from an aunt she hasn't spoken to in twenty years, she plans to sell it, ship the Steinway, and leave.

Then she finds the box with her name on it.

Inside is a file on the island's one unsolved death: Lena Varga, who drowned off the point below the house three years ago on a calm night. Her husband, Eli - the quiet salvage diver everyone crosses the street to avoid - was never charged. He didn't need to be. Halden Sound decided.

But Nora's aunt was the last person to see Lena alive, and the file suggests she knew exactly where Lena was going that night - and who was waiting.

As Nora is drawn into the mystery, she's drawn to the one man the island has already convicted. Every honest moment with Eli makes her believe him. Every page in the file points at him. And Eli is lying - just not about the thing they think.

Secrets in a small town don't stay buried. They wait for the tide.

A slow-burn romantic suspense with a mystery that plays fair, a love story that costs something, and a last-page revelation that changes everything you thought you knew about leaving.