Her Silent Marriage (Lies We Live By #1)

A mansion built on secrets. A husband who rewrote her past. A smart home programmed to keep her trapped.

Evelyn Vance has a bad arm, a fractured memory, and a husband who insists he is only trying to protect her.

Since the night her car went off the road on Fernhollow Curve, Evelyn’s life has been meticulously measured out: four pills a morning, ninety-one days of missing time, and an inescapable home automation system that watches her every move.

Julian is wealthy, charming, and endlessly patient—the kind of husband the whole town adores.

He tells her she’s recovering. He tells her she’s safe.

He tells her she’s confusing her days again.

But Evelyn is a structural engineer. She doesn’t argue with drawings; she checks the load paths. And when the pills in her daily organizer suddenly change color, she starts counting.

Ninety days

since the accident.

Six weeks

her husband claims she’s been home.

Thirty-four cameras

pointed at the estate.

Forty-one minutes

wiped clean from the security footage on the night she almost died.

Trapped inside an ultra-modern cage where the locks engage automatically and even the voice of the AI sounds hauntingly familiar, Evelyn realizes the fog in her head isn’t an injury—it’s a trap.

Her only lifeline is Cole Brennan, the rugged, straight-shooting contractor who installed the security system years ago.

Cole knows the house’s wiring, but more importantly, he’s the only person in town who listens when Evelyn speaks.

Together, they begin tracing the digital and physical seams of Julian’s perfect illusion.

To win her freedom, Evelyn will have to use the only weapon her husband couldn’t manipulate: her mind. Because every structure has a flaw, and Evelyn is about to tear his down.