Things We Never Said

She wrote a story to survive. She didn't mean to set the world-and herself-on fire.Maris Hartley was the dependable one.Wife. Mother. High-performing professional.A woman who kept her wants neatly tucked away... until everything unraveled.Fired from her job. Alone in a quiet house. Empty nest. A marriage held together by memory and politeness.Then came one wine-soaked night.One anonymous erotic story.One man from her past who still knows exactly how she likes to be undone.As her secret writing persona, Mare, explodes in popularity, Maris is forced to confront the woman she used to be-and the woman she's aching to become. What begins as a personal liberation, spirals into a love story so raw, it threatens to rewrite her life.Steamy, lyrical, and emotionally charged, Things We Never Said is a story of reawakening, reckoning, and the power of finally telling the truth.