Promise Not to Tell: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A woman’s past and present collide with unpredicted results in this hauntingly gorgeous debut novel occur rural Vermont.

Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher offers returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mom who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. On the night she arrives, a young girl is definitely murdered-a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate’s youth. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del-shunned and derided by classmates as “Potato Lady”-was brutally slain. Del’s killer was hardly ever found, as the sufferer has since achieved immortality in regional legends and ghost tales. Today, as this brand-new murder investigation attracts Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because there is nothing quite what it seems . as well as the grim specters of her youngsters are far from forgotten.

More than just a murder secret, Jennifer McMahon’s incredible debut novel, Promise Never to Tell, is a tale of friendship and family, devotion and betrayal-tautly written, deeply insightful, beautifully evocative, and absolutely unforgettable.