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SECRETS DENIED · FREDERICK TURNER
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Secrets Denied
A new home.
A missing family.
Too many questions.
Doune Village was supposed to give the Gabriel family a better life. But seventeen-year-old Dean sees something wrong behind its gates. The rules are strange. His younger brother is falling ill. And the company that controls the community seems to have something to hide.
As suspicion drives a wedge between Dean and his parents, he retreats into the White Mountains. When he returns, his family has vanished—and no one will tell him why.
Some places promise safety.
Some secrets make that impossible.
Secrets Denied brings together a family under pressure, a community built on silence, and a teenager determined to find the truth.
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New Hampshire looked even more beautiful than the photos he’d seen online and on TV. A glimpse of mirrored mountains on a still lake captivated him, his jaw-dropping. He reached for his SLR camera, his sixteenth birthday present, although he’d saved up for the zoom attachment with the additional macro lens.
“There he goes again!” said his father, Steven, catching Dean’s lanky movements in the rearview window. “Shall I pull over?”
“Nah, I’m going for that motion blur feel,” said Dean, hoping he wasn’t wasting more 35mm film.
Behind the stories
Frederick Turner
Frederick Turner writes mystery and suspense fiction shaped by a background in aviation and military service, a deep commitment to family, and a belief that a meaningful life begins with asking better questions.
His own search for independence and more time with the people who matter informs the themes of freedom, loyalty, and difficult choices in his work.
In Secrets Denied, those themes follow Dean Gabriel into a New Hampshire community where belonging comes at a price—and the truth refuses to stay buried.
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