Some memories are forgotten for a reason. Psychological Romance • Suspense

A masterpiece. A warning ignored. A man who survived what his pride created. Some changes come later.

Jack Nichols only wanted to remember. A blizzard-stranded retreat in the Vermont mountains promises healing, silence, and a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself trapped with strangers who vanish one by one-after an unplugged rotary phone calls their names. The inn's calm, smiling psychologist insists it's all part of the "program." The other guests whisper, accuse, and watch each other too closely. And when Jack forms a fragile alliance with Sophie Lang, the only person who seems to see what he sees, the phone turns on her. Now Jack is left with one question: is he uncovering the truth about his past-or falling into someone else's design? The snow will keep them in. The phone will keep ringing. And when it calls Jack's name, there may be no one left to answer.

Mara Ellison is a therapist, a mother, and a wife who believes in boundaries-until a twelve-year-old boy is mandated into her office after a violent incident at school. As his sessions reveal a life shaped by fear and listening, Mara is forced to make a report that begins to unravel the professional distance she depends on. As institutional pressure mounts and the lines between work and home blur, memories Mara has kept buried return in unexpected, unsettling ways. Ancient voices-echoes of endurance and inheritance-press in, asking what survival has cost her, and what it still demands. With clinical precision and quiet intensity, Quiet Fire explores abuse, dissociation, and the ethics of care, asking what happens when survival is mistaken for safety-and whether healing is ever neutral.