{"product_id":"2940185218600","title":"The Quiet Agreements","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn a cold rural town where nothing is written down, survival depends on understanding what is never said.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Evelyn returns to a farmhouse that keeps its heat a little too well and a town that asks no questions, she begins to notice patterns others have learned to ignore. Strangers pass through and vanish. Repairs are made without discussion. The land produces more than it should, and the cost of that abundance is quietly shared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one calls it a secret. No one calls it a crime. These are simply the agreements that keep the town calm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Evelyn traces the paper trails others have erased and watches how refusal is answered, she is forced to decide what responsibility looks like when silence becomes communal. Staying means accepting the rules the ground enforces. Leaving means understanding what she is abandoning to those who remain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Quiet Agreements is a slow-burn literary thriller about complicity, survival, and the moral weight of belonging. Atmospheric, unsettling, and deeply human, it explores how ordinary people make peace with extraordinary wrongs—and how easily comfort becomes consent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who appreciate grounded suspense, rural gothic tension, and stories where the true horror lies not in what is hidden, but in what everyone agrees not to name.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Dreadache Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47688632926449,"sku":"2940185218600","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940185218600_p0.jpg?v=1768833648","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940185218600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}