Some women survive the relationship. Not all of them survive what comes after. Detective Erin Calloway thought she'd seen the worst of what people do to each other. Then a body turns up in the woods outside Farris County - staged, deliberate, and disturbingly familiar to two more. Erin came home to Fairlane, Virginia to leave her past behind, Army CID, a career built on finding people who didn't want to be found. She never expected that skill set to matter here, in the town she grew up in, working cases everyone assumes are simple. This one isn't simple. All three victims are survivors of domestic abuse. All three found their way, eventually, to the same quiet support network built to help women start over. Someone is using that trust against them - hunting the women who thought they'd already survived the worst thing that would ever happen to them. As Erin digs deeper, she realizes the killer isn't a stranger circling from the outside. He's someone with access. Someone trusted. Someone still moving freely through the lives of women who came here to feel safe - and Erin is running out of time to figure out who, before he chooses again. She has to find him first. Because this time, it might be someone she can't afford to lose. A gripping, atmospheric thriller for fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and Melinda Leigh - The Silent Beneath is the first book in the Erin Calloway series, introducing a detective readers won't be able to stop following. Some secrets don't stay buried.