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-A psychological thriller where brilliance becomes a weapon and silence turns deadly. Liam Burke has built an entire life out of illusions-small illnesses, well-timed collapses, fainting spells, bouts of ""mysterious pain."" For everyone else, he's a man cursed with fragile health and an uncanny streak of bad luck. For Liam, it's a game of control. Each fabricated symptom earns him sympathy, dependence, and-most importantly-power. His partner walks on eggshells. His friends pity him. His colleagues underestimate him. And that's exactly how he likes it. But beneath the timid exterior lies something colder. Liam isn't just faking sick. He's escalating. When a woman connected to him dies under suspicious circumstances, Detective Mara Ibarra is assigned the case. She expects a straightforward investigation. What she finds instead is a man whose entire identity is a strategically constructed maze of half-truths, carefully timed episodes, and manipulative charm. There's no DNA. No fingerprints. No obvious motive. Only patterns-patterns so subtle almost no one notices them. Almost. Mara is the first to see through the performance. She recognizes Liam's psychological tells: the micro-pauses before he lies, the choreographed helplessness, the way he studies people as if predicting their next move. To everyone else, Liam is unlucky. To Mara, he's a predator perfecting his craft. As she digs deeper, Liam feels the walls tightening. He senses her suspicion long before she can act on it. And if there's one thing Liam cannot tolerate, it's losing control. Soon, another ""accident"" occurs. Then another. Each one is designed to look like bad luck or coincidence, just out of reach of legal proof. With every step Mara takes toward exposing him, Liam counters with precision-turning friends against her, planting doubt, manipulating evidence, and performing the role of the fragile victim so convincingly that even seasoned officers begin to question her instincts. But Mara is relentless. She becomes the one variable Liam cannot anticipate, the single person capable of disrupting his careful equilibrium. The more she pushes, the more cracks appear in Liam's façade. Each slip, each miscalculated move chips away at the silence he's built around himself. And Liam knows that when silence breaks, predators are exposed. The investigation spirals into a psychological duel neither is fully prepared for, where intelligence becomes both weapon and weakness. Mara must risk her career, her safety, and her sanity to catch a man who leaves no evidence-and who believes he's smarter than everyone around him. Liam must eliminate the one person he can't manipulate. Only one of them is right. THE SILENT HOURS is a gripping, slow-burn psychological thriller that dives deep into manipulation, power, and the terrifying art of maintaining control., this novel delivers a chilling battle of minds where every detail matters, every silence hides a truth, and every mistake could be fatal. In a world built on lies, the truth is the deadliest threat of all.

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