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THE QUIET ROOM is an adult queer crime-romance set in Boston, where truth has a price and silence is a system.
Avery Lennox is a Fisher College criminal justice student with a talent for listening, really listening to the stories that get ignored. When Avery starts digging into a cluster of famous Boston cold cases tied to a haunting pattern of "violet ink" messages, the research turns into something sharper: a shadow archive, missing names that never made it into official files, and evidence that the cases didn't just go cold... they were chilled.
Enter Marisol Vale, a brilliant rookie who doesn't play by the rules but knows exactly when rules become weapons. She and Avery clash at first: procedure versus instinct, patience versus pressure. But as intimidation ramps up, records disappear, and someone begins tracking their every move, the partnership becomes the only safe place left. The deeper they push into Boston's hidden corridors of influence, vendors, oversight committees, and an access network called "the Keyring," the more the city fights back with polite threats and administrative force.
Between late-night research, risky interviews, and coded letters meant to control the narrative, Avery and Marisol fall slowly, fiercely, and inevitably into each other, building trust, consent, and desire in the middle of danger. Because in Boston, the killer isn't the only one watching... and the most dangerous thing Avery can do isn't solving the case.
It's refusing to stay quiet.