The Silent Betrayal

In *The Silent Betrayal*, Emily and Greg's seemingly perfect relationship is rocked by hidden truths and shattered trust. When secrets from Greg's past come to light, Emily's world is turned upside down, leaving her grappling with betrayal and uncertainty. As they struggle to navigate the fallout, both must confront their deepest fears and insecurities. Through raw emotions and painful honesty, Emily and Greg embark on a journey of healing and rediscovery. Set against the backdrop of emotional turbulence and the quest for redemption, this poignant tale explores the complexities of love, trust, and forgiveness. Will their love survive the ultimate test, or will the shadows of the past prove too powerful to overcome? *The Silent Betrayal* is a compelling story of resilience and the transformative power of vulnerability in the face of profound heartache.

#The Vanilla Edition is the pure form of the story and only contains the original text and not the additional maps, images and alternative endings# "Silent Hill has more than once canvas, painted by the taint of your sins. Consider this your personal hell." Trevor wakes up from another nightmare of Silent Hill just before getting a call that the police are after him following the apparent suicide of his wife, Caroline. He barely escapes with his lover Kathy and best friend Jay Nixon, the police force hot on their tail on the dark highway. During the pursuit, a mist covers the road and a strange man with a metallic object on his head causes them to crash on the outskirts of Silent Hill. When Trevor awakens, he finds himself alone at the scene of the accident with no knowledge of where the others are. His search for them not only reveals that the town is haunted with terrifying creatures, but is also tainted with clues of Caroline's presence. As his struggle through the misty town leads him closer to Kathy's whereabouts, Trevor learns the truth of Caroline's death. And with this knowledge, he discovers that everyone that had a part to play in her misery has been brought together to Silent Hill to account for their sins. In the midst of the pain and the blood stands Caroline's mysterious guardian with the metallic stained pyramid on his head... and he is ready to exact justice for their betrayal... **WARNING** This book is suitable for adults (18+) only. It contains horrifying & sexual content. Some scenes may be considered violent, grotesque or disturbing. Do not read if you are offended by such content or if you are under the age of 18. The acts that occur in this story are not meant to encourage similar acts in real life. ***DISCLAIMER*** Permission has been obtained from the relevant official Konami distributors and agents to write this work of fiction based on the Silent Hill franchise. It is not an adaptation of any of the films or games, but an unique story set in the titular town. More information on these rights can be viewed at the author's blog

**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She asks: is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely-honed storytelling, exploring outbreaks around the world, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health, or if that trust has been irrevocably broken. "A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one . . . a sober, scary book that not only limns the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries' worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Walter Hambile Kondile is the typical ‘good native’ of his generation, poorly educated and subservient, brought up to know his place and believe that ‘it was God’s design for the white man to rule over me’. Then Kondile’s beloved daughter, Sindiswa, a young struggle activist, goes missing in exile. Kondile’s search leads him to Lesotho and grim discoveries of betrayal that shatter forever his own ‘complicity of silence’, committing him to an irrevocable path of no return. This is a compelling and beautifully written novel by Mtutuzeli Nyoka, a powerful storyteller who tells his history as he sees it.

Johann Blakemore is a multi-billionaire, heir to one of the richest and most influential companies in North America. Despite the enormous wealth he remains troubled, confused and at constant crossroads with his internal struggles. He suspects his father, whom he hates deeply, of secretly being a Nazi but has been unable to prove it so far. And he also thinks that his father was behind his mother's sudden death when he was a child. On the one hand he wants to confront his father and on the other he is scared that exposing his father as a Nazi could also mean a possible liquidation of Blakemore Industries by the government with his tainted inheritance taken away from him - selfishness or self-perseverance? But now that decisions are being forced upon him and with the CIA hounding down his mere existence in the name of cooperation, he is pushed by his rejuvenated moral conscience to search for the truth and uncover the countless horrid miseries that his father had helped bring upon this earth - to whatever end. Although finding the truth out and manipulating that truth to make your own reality are two separate things with different consequences. Swimming in these treacherous waters is never too easy and Johann will soon find out that the line between good and evil is drawn by the ink of perception, a perception that he is yet to fully embrace.

Could a mother go too far in preventing her daughter from being with the person she loves? Could one person's preference in life force a daughter onto a path she never intended to follow? And could it be, that secrets reveal ugly truths, as the fight for what you believe in, forces the ultimate betrayal? Silent Betrayal follows Mira Radebe as she falls in love with a person she could only describe as her 'love at first sight'. But her mother blackmails her into leaving Arabella in her past, and to do exactly what she wasn't ready to do. She is forced to run the family company, and once she came of age, she had no choice but do just that. Her life is thrown out of its comfortable orbit when she starts dating her best friend, Dean, and even though she loves him, she finds it hard to forget how much her heart ached to be with Arabella. She silently betrays her own promises, as she fights to accept she could trust others, when her whole life she knew not to. Excerpt Soft music played over the speakers and the chatter slightly faded, the closer I shuffle to Dean's office. I looked at the portraits on the walls and, as the door at the end of the hall opened, the song thrumming epitomized what I was feeling. Lost in your eyes, drowning in blue Arabella stopped in her office's doorway, uncertain whether she should just step back and close the door. "Hi," I managed in a small voice. She walked closer, peering at me, uncertain. "Uhm..." "How are you doing?" She asked, as her perfume drifted my way. She was more than a metre away from me, but still managed to completely overwhelm my senses. I was high and she was the drug I hadn't even tasted yet. Tones of jasmine, peony and pink pepper made my mind go fuzzier with confusion than her small talk approach had, "I'm doing well. The party is-" "Since the day I saw you in this place...you had done something to me," I stared at her, completely stunned. "Mira...are you completely straight, without question?" My mouth opened, but I managed nothing. It happened so fast, the next thing I knew, my back was against Dean's office door and her hands captured my face, just as her mouth met mine. Her lips tasted of champagne and cherries. I groaned and pulled her hips tightly against mine, while my mouth opened to receive her tongue. She stroked the sensitive flesh on the inside of my lower lip and I melted into her like caramel ice-cream on a sunny day. My mind was lost to her subtle, yet completely seductive onslaught. She moaned against my mouth and my hands moved up her sides and I enveloped her breasts. Her tongue softly slid along mine while the pressure in my core built up to a high that was indescribable. Oh, this woman could kiss. Our tongues danced between our lips in a build-up of undeniable passion. I felt like I was in a dream, but when the sound of howling men echoed down the hallway, it all abruptly ended. Arabella stepped back, shocked, and I leaned away from the door as two men appeared with Dean. They were cheering, and something in Dean showed that he knew it made us uncomfortable. At least he was a decent enough guy to know that men going batshit over woman kissing was annoying as hell. "I shouldn't have done that," Arabella said in an almost dismayed tone and I stared at her, pained. She had made it sound like a mistake and the retort in her manner hurt me. I shook my head and walked away, said my goodbye to Dean, and left. I had been kissed into a complete stupor, but the participating party clearly had not experienced the same thing.

Returning to union space captain Solaria discovers that after betraying her Lawrence returned to the union and told everyone that she had betrayed the union and so she is arrested as soon as she arrives.