What Stays Unsaid – A gripping, twisty must-read toxic friendship psych thriller (Paperback)

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A weekend meant for celebration draws a small group of women back together on the edge of Dartmoor, where old friendships have thinned but never fully broken. Smiles are worn carefully. Conversations circle around what is safe to say. Beneath it all lies the absence of Becca, their childhood friend whose death reshaped everything that followed.

In What Stays Unsaid, the moorland setting presses in on the characters as much as their shared history does. The landscape is vast, isolated, and quietly unforgiving, mirroring the emotional distance between women who once knew each other intimately. When hints emerge that the past may not be as settled as they believed, long-buried loyalties and resentments begin to surface.

As weather closes in and tensions tighten, the novel traces how grief calcifies into silence, and how silence can be its own form of violence. What Stays Unsaid is a slow-burning exploration of friendship, guilt, and the cost of keeping secrets, allowing unease to accumulate until it can no longer be contained.