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For more than two decades, Darcy Anderson has believed she knows her husband. A chance discovery of a disguised box beneath a worktable in their garage reveals a dark reality concealed behind their ordinary life. The hidden contents expose a web of crime, secrecy, and violence that upends the stability of their marriage, forcing Darcy to confront a truth she could not have imagined.
The novella explores the fragile boundaries of domestic intimacy, the hidden darkness that can lurk beneath a seemingly normal relationship, and the desperate measures one woman must take when she is forced to face the horrors her spouse has kept locked away.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Stephen King
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