The Quiet Patient

Some memories are buried for a reason. Others are waiting to be remembered.Twenty-two years after being sent away from Ash Creek, Nathan Calloway returns to settle his late father's affairs and close the door on the town that shaped his nightmares.He plans to stay only long enough to empty the house.Then he sees the rusted green truck.It appears on empty roads, outside darkened buildings, and in places no one should know Nathan will be. Old neighbors watch him too closely. Familiar faces offer carefully rehearsed answers. And inside his childhood home, Nathan discovers a hidden box connected to the tragedy that tore his family apart.Everyone in Ash Creek remembers the quiet patient.No one tells the same story.As Nathan begins questioning what happened during the final months before he was sent away, fragments of his childhood return-wet grass beneath his feet, a frightened child beside him, his father's hand against his neck, and the ditch he has spent his entire life trying to forget.But memories can be altered.Witnesses can lie.And some towns will do anything to protect the version of the past that keeps them safe.The closer Nathan comes to the truth, the more he realizes his return to Ash Creek may not have been his decision at all.Because the worst thing buried in Ash Creek is not a body.It is what Nathan was made to forget.Dark, atmospheric, and filled with psychological tension, The Quiet Patient is the first novel in the Ash Creek Psychological Thrillers series.