A lone man faces a misty town across the water. Emma Mercer’s missing-person poster hangs on a nearby tree. This temporary cover includes AI-generated artwork; I plan to replace it with commissioned art.

Thriller/Mystery/Crime

The Quiet Between Us

Name: The Quiet Between Us
Author: Kendall Kirkbride

by Kendall Kirkbride

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Available in paperback. Paperback ISBN 9798171585532.

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Twenty-five years after his eight-year-old sister Emma vanished from Blackridge, Ohio, Elliott Mercer returns for his father’s funeral. Among his father’s belongings, he finds evidence that the search for Emma never truly ended—and that the story Blackridge has accepted may be wrong. Following a trail of conflicting memories and old records back toward the woods where she disappeared, Elliott must confront what his family lost and what his hometown has kept buried.

What to expect

Mood: Dark and gritty Creepy and unsettling Suspenseful Thought-provoking
Tropes: Hidden identity Why choose
Setting and world: Small town Nature and wilderness Real world, real problems
Pace and shape: Fast-paced Full of plot twists First in a series
Themes: Survival Grief and healing Secrets and lies

Book details

Author: Kendall Kirkbride
Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Crime
Formats: Paperback
Paperback ISBN: 9798171585532

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Kendall Kirkbride

Kendall Kirkbride is an Ohio-based author whose work moves through psychological suspense, crime thriller, gothic mystery, horror, and dark romantasy. Her stories are shaped by secrets, obsession, complicated people, and the dangerous space between what we know and what we fear. Her debut novel, The Quiet Between Us, opens the Elliott Mercer series, followed by Where the Missing Go and What the Dead Remember. Her dark romantasy novel, When Gods Wake, is the first book in the planned five-book series The Dead Gods. Outside of writing, Kendall is a licensed chemical dependency counselor working as a primary therapist in substance-use treatment. She earned her undergraduate degree in criminal justice and is pursuing a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling, with concentrations in addiction counseling and forensic counseling, as she prepares for doctoral study in forensic psychology. Kendall lives on a small Ohio homestead with her wife, Missy, their teenage daughter, a houseful of deeply loved—and thoroughly spoiled—dogs and cats, and an ever-growing collection of books and houseplants.

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