Every Secret Has Teeth

At 3:14 in the morning, Claire Mercer hears a voice through her baby monitor. It is her husband's voice. He is not in the house.

Four years ago Claire lost her first daughter, and everyone agreed on what happened that afternoon - everyone except Claire, whose memory of it has been gently corrected so many times that she no longer trusts a single thing she knows. She has a husband who monitors her sleep, a doctor who takes his calls, and a small white dish of tablets that appears on the counter every night.

Then she finds the shoebox. Then the locked folders. Then a recording of a 911 call that proves her daughter was still breathing at 4:51 p.m. - an hour and a half before anyone drove her to a hospital.
Claire has spent five years being told she is unwell. She is about to find out what she is capable of when she stops apologising for it.

A slow-burning psychological thriller about coercive control, buried evidence, and a mother who finally stops asking permission - with a final page that will make you reread the first.
Content note: depictions of psychological abuse, coercive control, and infant death.