The Perfect Neighbor

A Domestic Thriller Novella

She heard the scream. She called the police. She did everything right.

Wendy Keating used to save people for a living. As a child psychologist she could read a room in seconds — the lie beneath the smile, the truth behind the silence.

Then a patient died.

Her license was revoked, and she moved to Savannah to disappear into a barista job and an apartment where nobody knew her history. She almost managed it.

Then the woman next door screamed.

The police say everything's fine. The husband says his wife left to visit family. Everyone has an explanation. Everyone is very calm. The only person who thinks something is wrong is a woman with shaking hands, a Klonopin prescription, and a note in the police database that says approach with caution.

But Wendy knows what she heard. She knows what the scratches on her neighbor's arms mean. She knows the smell of bleach used to cover something worse. And the more she documents, the more she calls, the more she pushes — the more unhinged she looks.

Nothing about this is accidental.

Her history makes her the perfect person to ignore. And someone is counting on that.

The Perfect Neighbor is a taut domestic thriller about a woman everyone's written off, a disappearance that was never real, and a con so precise it uses compassion as a weapon.

Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Riley Sager, The Woman in the Window, The Silent Patient, and Behind Closed Doors.