The Quiet Game: Book Two of the Willow Bend Trilogy

Book Two of The Willow Bend Chronicles
by Tequilla Havens

Some silences are chosen.
Some are inherited.

Selena Wilder is tired of running into walls.

She knows what she feels for Ezra Merrick. She isn’t blind. She isn’t foolish. But loving someone who hides behind quiet can feel like shouting into a locked room. And lately, the quiet in Willow Bend has taken on a life of its own.

Notes are still appearing.
The air still shifts when no one is looking.
And the past refuses to stay buried.

Ezra has spent years believing silence is safer than truth. If he doesn’t say it, it can’t break. If he doesn’t dig, it won’t bleed. But when the echoes of 1965 begin pressing closer—closer to his family, closer to Selena—his restraint starts to look less like protection and more like fear.

As tension builds between them, the line between caution and avoidance blurs. Old loyalties are tested. Family history resurfaces. And something in Willow Bend is no longer content to wait.

Because in a town where memory lingers in every creaking floorboard and every flicker of light, the quiet isn’t empty.

It’s listening.

The Quiet Game is a slow-burning small-town romance threaded with legacy, longing, and the supernatural—where love demands honesty, and the past won’t stay silent forever.