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Doug Hampton has spent years learning how to keep his life compartmentalized.
There is Clara, his wife of twenty years, and the comfortable life they have built together. There is his career, his reputation, and the future he believes he still controls.
And then there is Wendy.
Wendy is the woman Doug has been seeing in secret. Twice a week, they meet in a rented room where they can forget their marriages and the responsibilities waiting for them outside. What began as an affair has become something more to Doug. He cares about her. He imagines a future with her. But for now, he believes he can keep Wendy separate from the rest of his life.
Then one night, Doug follows his boss.
Harold Douglas enters an apartment with Betsy Trammell, a young woman from the office. From outside, Doug watches through an uncurtained second-floor window as Harold has sex with Betsy. She is alive, excited, and completely unaware of what is coming.
Doug watches Harold leave the apartment alone.
The next day, Betsy is reported dead.
Doug knows what he saw. He knows who was with her. But going to the police means revealing why he was following Harold in the first place—and exposing his affair with Wendy.
Then Doug discovers that Wendy has a connection to Harold that he never could have imagined.
Now everything he thought he understood about his secret relationship begins to unravel.
The police want answers. Harold has his own secrets to protect. And Doug is caught between what he knows about a murder and what he feels for the woman he has been trying to build a life with.
Coming forward could put Harold behind bars—but it could also destroy his relationship with Wendy and expose everything Doug has spent months protecting.
Staying silent could allow a killer to walk free.
Doug has spent his life keeping things separate.
Now he has to decide which part of his life he is willing to lose.
For Mature Audiences Only
Publisher : We Are Wise Thinkers
Publication date : September 11, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 144 pages .
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