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<b>THE AUTHOR WITH MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE!</b><p><b>Some places promise peace-Winter Cove keeps the promise just long enough to break you with it.</b> <p>Bestselling author Alex West believes an eleven-million-dollar glass house on the Maine coast will finally give him what Manhattan never could: stillness. Space. A life with his wife, Jennifer, that isn't always under a microscope due to his fame. <p>Jennifer wants that life too. But returning to Maine costs her more than Alex understands. <b><i>More than she's ever said aloud.</i></b></p><p>From the moment they arrive, Winter Cove feels... curated. The neighbors are friendly in a way that borders on performance. Their warmth is too swift. Their interest in Jennifer too sharp around the edges. And the HOA president greets her with warnings disguised as kindness-warnings Jennifer can't quite decipher no matter how hard she tries. <p><b>Then the phone rings. The caller is dead. And yet, he speaks.</b> <p>And then the fractures begin. Conversations she doesn't remember having. Doors that lead nowhere. Stories that collapse when questioned. And the past Jennifer has kept buried-carefully, deliberately-starts rising through the cracks she's tried so hard to seal. <p><b>Someone in Winter Cove knows her. Knows who she was. Knows what happened to her in this state all those years ago.</b> <p>And as the truth slides closer, Jennifer is forced to face the darkest part of returning home: <p><b>Some wounds don't close. Some places don't forgive. Some pasts aren't finished with you.</b> <p>Taut, elegant, and emotionally shattering, <i>The Cul-de-Sac</i> is a psychological thriller about what the mind builds to survive unbearable loss, the memories we construct when we can't face the truth, and the cost of finally seeing clearly. For readers who loved the reality-shattering revelations of <i>Shutter Island</i> and <i>Before I Go to Sleep</i>. <p><b>Contains themes of mental illness, dissociation, and infant l