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The Secrets Raspberries Keep by Amber Rochelle Gilpin

At sixteen, Jenny Thompson finds a body in the woods behind her family’s raspberry thicket. The town moves on quickly. Voices lower. Questions fade. But Jenny cannot. In a place where preserving reputation often matters more than justice, she learns early what girls are expected to carry in silence. When she later survives a trauma of her own, that silence becomes both shield and burden, shaping her faith, her relationships, and her sense of worth well into adulthood.Years later, as Jenny struggles to rebuild her life after an abusive relationship and an unexpected pregnancy, a journalist reopens the cold case. The renewed attention does more than stir old memories. It exposes a secret buried within Jenny’s own family, one that reveals how generations of women survived by keeping the peace at any cost. But survival has consequences. Silence does not disappear. It settles. It hardens. It is passed down.To expose the truth would unravel her family’s legacy and fracture the only community she has ever known. To remain quiet would mean passing the wound forward.THE SECRETS RASPBERRIES KEEP is a character-driven, immersive novel that unfolds slowly and with intention. It lingers in the aftermath of harm and centers the lives of women who endure, adapt, and carry what others refuse to name. It is sorrow layered over time, but it is also a story of defiance and reclamation, of women who have been taught to survive and one woman who decides survival is no longer enough.