Under Every Tongue

<p><strong>Every town has its secrets. This one just made theirs public.</strong></p><p>When music teacher <strong>Ava Finch</strong> corrects her student in a café it should have been nothing - a late assignment a soft rebuke over in seconds. But in a town that listens too loudly even silence can sound like guilt.</p><p>By sunset a rumor has become a story. By morning the story has become a scandal. And by the end of the week an entire community has convinced itself it's protecting a child while quietly destroying a woman.</p><p>Through the eyes of <strong>Noreen</strong> the café owner who heard it all <strong>Jonas</strong> the journalist who gives the lie a headline <strong>Mara</strong> the friend who dares to defend the accused and <strong>Elliot</strong> the boy at the center of it all the town's collective voice becomes a living weapon - whisper by whisper post by post.</p><p>What begins as a misunderstanding turns into a moral wildfire - and the truth once spoken softly becomes background noise.</p><p>Lyrical tense and devastatingly human <em><strong>Under Every Tongue</strong></em> is a literary thriller about how gossip becomes gospel how decency turns to violence and how silence can be both a wound and a weapon.</p><p>If words can build worlds this story asks - what happens when they start to burn?</p><p>Perfect for fans of <strong>Celeste Ng Ian McEwan and Donna Tartt</strong> this novel will stay under your skin long after the final page whispering the same terrible question that haunts its town:</p><p><strong>Who do we become when the truth stops mattering?</strong></p>