Done in the Dark

<p><strong><em>Every shut eye ain't sleep every goodbye ain't gone and what's done in the dark always comes to light.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mama Ella's final words were a warning that unsettled Karina-a heavy prophecy impossible to ignore. A week later Candace showed up at the funeral.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After their grandmother's death estranged sisters Candace and Karina burdened by years of silence hurt and everything they've never said inch toward reconciliation. Yet what could be a simple reunion becomes something far more complicated as old tensions flare and long-shadowed truths edge into the light.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grief forces proximity.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But it's the past</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-restless unresolved and insistent-</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>that forces confrontation and demands acknowledgment.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As pieces of their family family history shift into place Candace and Karina are pushed to face:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• the lies they leaned on</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• the identities they created to survive</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• the choices whose consequences still echo</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• and the complicated terrain of forgiveness and accountability.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Raw emotionally layered and impossible to turn away from <em>Done in the Dark</em> is a powerful contemporary fiction novel about family secrets sisterhood and the reckoning that comes when what has been hidden is finally revealed.</strong></p><p></p>