The Forgotten Room: BOOK SEVEN (Deadman’s Daughter 7)

Some girls bury the past. Mila Knox became it.

For fifteen years, Mila hasn’t spoken a word. Not since the night her family was slaughtered inside their home—and she was found clutching a bloodstained knife. The case was never solved. Her silence never explained. Her father disappeared. And Mila? She became the girl who didn’t scream.

Now, the past returns with a vengeance.

A new murder mimics the exact details of her family’s massacre. Same layout. Same symbols. Same scent of copper and ash in the walls. Only this time, Mila isn’t the one holding the weapon.

And she isn’t the only one haunted.

Roman Vale was once a detective with a reputation for solving the unsolvable—until one wrong call cost a girl her life. Now, he stitches up criminals in back alleys and pretends not to care. But when Mila walks into his world with her silence and her scars, something unravels. He knows trauma. He knows guilt. And he knows she’s lying.

Because silence is never empty.

They take refuge in a rotting house on the edge of nowhere—a place riddled with hidden passageways, carved messages in the walls, and a locked room no one can open. The closer Roman gets to the truth, the more he realizes that this house isn’t just a shelter. It’s a map. A confession. A trap.

Someone wants them to remember.

But remembering comes with a price. As the line between memory and madness blurs, Mila’s voice returns—one secret at a time. She remembers the blood. The fire. The lullaby. The final word whispered before everything went dark.

She just doesn’t remember if it came from her father’s lips… or her own.

Because monsters don’t always break in.
Sometimes, they’re born in the nursery down the hall.

The Forgotten Room is a dark romantic thriller about memory, obsession, and the lies we tell to survive. For fans of Verity, Home Before Dark, and The Butterfly Garden, this novel will keep you guessing until the last page—and leave you wondering what silence really sounds like.