CL HYDE

THE RESCUE

The Trust Mystery Series: Prequel

A Boy’s Trauma Unleashes a Man’s Quest for Answers to his Childhood Tragedy

It’s a Saturday evening, and Bram and his wife, Xoese, are enjoying a cozy night. Bizarre events trigger one of Bram’s terrifying nightmares. Kaleidoscopic visions rip him through time to his four-year-old self and the fatal tragedy that stole his parents. Around him are flames, searing surfaces, and the mangled wreckage of his parents’ car. But this torment is different; he glimpses his shadowy rescuer—a stranger who fought through hell’s inferno, tore off a volcanic car door, and enticed the petrified Bram to safety with his lost toy horse.

How did his saviour know him? Why was he close by? Why would he suffer terrible injuries to rescue him?

Bram awakens knowing he must unmask this enigmatic protector to unlock the puzzle of his survival, the reason for his parents’ deaths, and achieve release from his torments. But the quest will open Pandora’s box of secrets—explosive revelations that detonate his world, threatening not just Xoese and their two children, but rewrites everything he knows about himself.

A gripping prequel to the thrilling Trust Series, The Rescue, is a twisting journey of romantic suspense where mind-bending deception and shattering truths escort you to the gripping events in Eyes Shout Secrets, book 1 in the series.

Perfect for fans of suspense and psychosocial complexity in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the mystery and action adventure of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the emotional rush of “Outlander.”

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EYES SHOUT SECRETS

The Trust Mystery Series, Book 1

A Perfect Marriage Conceals a Deadly Secret.

For Bram de Jong, his wife Xoese is his universe—his lover, confidante, and everything. Together, they’ve built a wonderful life in London with joyful children and hard-earned success. Then one day, a mysterious woman brings a chilling warning, causing their marriage bliss to splinter

Rachael’s message is madness - it means Bram must abandon Xoese and their children forever or allow an unspeakable nightmare to tear them apart. Bram refuses to give up all he loves and the life they’ve created.

His defiance ignites menacing forces and an explosive chain of events that brutally dismantles his reality.

Framed for shocking crimes and pursued by a relentless power, Bram watches in horror as the crossfire causes innocents to suffer. As his world crumbles, revelations about Xoese’s past obliterates everything he thought he knew about the woman he treasures.

Thrust into a psychological labyrinth, Bram must confront incomprehensible choices to preserve his loved ones. Can he navigate the mind-bending truth about Xoese before deception causes him to lose his grip on reality and sacrifice the fierce passions that define him?

Plunge into the dark depths of “Eyes Shout Secrets” - a turbulent, emotionally charged thrill ride that peels away the layers of an idyllic relationship.

This intense psychological suspense will keep you questioning your reality until the shattering, haunting conclusion.

Perfect for fans of thought-provoking novels like “Gone Girl” and “How to Stop Time” and “The Wife Between Us” that explore the dark underbelly of modern marriage and what it is to be human.

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THE PARTING GIFT

The Trust Mystery Series, Book 2

A Murder Shatters Bram’s New life in Lima—saving his family means brokering peace between enemies determined to destroy each other

For Bram, a vibrant suburb of Peru’s Lima should herald a fresh start with his children and an opportunity for him to find happiness. But when the husband of Rachael, a woman bound to Bram by a dark secret, is murdered, an insidious conspiracy shatters their fragile peace.

Bram possesses the key to uncovering the truth, but doing so will pit him and Rachael against a brutal underworld - corrupt military powers and two brilliant adversaries locked in a deadly battle, fuelled by their sinister pasts and an obsessiveness to destroy each other at any cost.

As Bram and Rachael navigate this treacherous maze of betrayal and deception, they realise the motive behind the murder is merely the surface of a deeper, more twisted game reaching from the shadows of Venezuela to the highest levels of power. Caught between ruthless forces, Bram becomes an unwitting pawn, forced to make unimaginable sacrifices to protect his tight-knit community and loved ones from the darkness seeping into their lives.

In this intense psychological thriller that explores the unspeakable depths of human obsessions, one wrong step could obliterate Bram’s world and everyone in it. How far will he go to unravel the conspiracy and at what cost to his soul?

Perfect for fans of suspense and psychosocial complexity in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the mystery and action adventure of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the emotional rush of “Outlander.”

The Parting Gift is a turbulent, emotionally charged thrill ride that will leave you questioning what really lies beneath the fragile veneer of what we see.

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THE SERPENT'S TRAP

The Trust Mystery Series, Book 3

Buried beneath deception’s web, a twisted love cuts deeply reawakening a lethal enemy

Bram’s life shatters when he awakens in his London hotel suite entwined with the alluring Sasha—he’s disoriented and the situation risks obliterating his future with fiancée, Alicia. But Sasha is no mere temptress; she’s a British intelligence officer of fearsome repute who has ensnared Bram in her sinister web which harbours Lukas, a genius analyst with secrets capable of toppling governments.

Alicia and Bram become snared in Sasha’s serpentine underworld mission, taking you from London to Caracas to Quito and Lima. As stakes soar, Bram must make an impossible choice—obey Sasha’s perilous demands or lose Alicia and be responsible for innocents losing their lives.

With a psychopathic mastermind anticipating Bram’s every move, only ruthless execution prevails in this clandestine world of smoke and mirrors. With brutality not in his nature, Bram’s gamble is brains and guile will get him and Alicia safely home. The stakes are high, the West’s security, a new beginning with Alica and, without him knowing, his survival.

Plunge into CL Hyde’s latest romantic suspense, a turbulent, twisty thrill ride that will have you question reality and guessing outcomes until the final, mind-bending reveals.

Perfect for fans of suspense and psychosocial complexity in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the mystery and action adventure of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the emotional rush of “Outlander.”

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THE REMAKING

The Trust Mystery Series: A Companion

A Mother’s Unthinkable Choice: Her Daughter or Her Lifelong Moral Code?

Marybeth’s world shatters when she learns her daughter has fallen under the sway of a gangland drug dealer. As a lawyer who champions the vulnerable, Marybeth lives by an unwavering ethical code. But with her child’s life in danger, she faces an agonizing dilemma—rely on her legal skills or embrace darkness to save her daughter.

Her ordeal begins when the enigmatic Adriana invests in her struggling legal practice. Marybeth resumes her mission to protect the weak until a chilling revelation surfaces during a meeting in London’s Mayfair. Scarred by the horrors inflicted by Mexican drug cartels, Adriana seeks brutal vengeance and needs Marybeth’s help. Repulsed, Marybeth renounces Adriana until confronted with her daughter’s boyfriend’s violent, drug-fuelled past.

Marybeth stares into a moral abyss. Can she rescue her daughter by wielding her sword of justice, or must she resort to Adriana’s ruthless methods? Adriana’s promise glistens with temptation. Marybeth faces a guilt-ridden choice: hope her moral code can triumph or abandon her long-held values and become what she has fought against all her life.

“The Remaking” is an enthralling exploration of an ethical crucible where right and wrong melt into one another. Perfect for fans of the terrifying descent into the moral greyness of “Gone Girl,” the psychological manipulation in “The Wife Between Us,” and the crisis of identity in “The Silent Patient.”

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FINDING RACHAEL

The Trust Mystery Series: A Companion

Rachael’s Heartrending Odyssey, Her kins Half-Century Search, Her Life-Changing Realisation

With her family, Rachael flees the Great War’s carnage and secures refuge in Britain, but tragedy’s claws are long. The Spanish Flu claims her husband and children. Rachael’s inexplicable survival astounds doctors, just as it always has. Neighbours in the Romanian village of her birth accused her of being of the night consigning her to a life of wandering—never telling, teaching her vigilance.

Watchfulness ensured those searching, her kin, will never find Rachael; until now. The moment has arrived when she reaches for their hook, the bate.

In her exile, Rachael’s realm is her memories until, in a graceful London suburb, a chance encounter with the noble Mable. She brings reviving light into Rachael’s life, but her grief makes loves caress too much to bear. Fleeing, Rachael takes up the trail of a promise, one that will provide insight into the mystery of her survival.

She uncovers more than just the legacy in her blood. Rachael accepts a new dawn of possibilities and transforms, becoming the person she is today—a beacon, a guide for others blessed like her.

Perhaps you will be one of those upon whose door she must knock—be a lucky one, be the rarest of the rare. Be more human than human.

Finding Rachael is an enthralling psychological thriller, blending historical intrigue, emotional depth and legend. It is an anthem of triumph over the insurmountable, an exploration of self-discovery, resilience, and needs of the heart.

Perfect for fans of the haunting revelations in “The Historian,” the emotional depth in “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and the genre-blending thrills in “The Alienist.”

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FROM POSSIBILITIES BECOME

The Trust Mystery Series: A Compendium of Stories

Three Twisty Unputdownable Psychological Thriller Novellas

Lose yourself in enthralling stories where mundane normality for Bram, Rachael, and Marybeth evaporates as the past catches up with them, transforming their lives. In From Possibilities Become, witness explosive revelations, electrifying deceptions, and unthinkable choices.

The Rescue: Bram’s tranquil family life unravels when a recurring nightmare surfaces an explosive childhood memory—a mystery rescuer braved flames to pull Bram from the wreckage of his parents’ car. This revelation triggers a quest that will shatter his idyllic family, rewrite his life, and lead to mind-bending deceptions in Eyes Shout Secrets.

Finding Rachael: In an odyssey spanning wars, pandemics, and tragic family loss, Rachael has been an outcast and an enigma since her teenage years. This is a journey spanning the generations until she succumbs to her pursuers’ trap. Bravely, Rachael steps into a new dawn of possibilities, becoming a beacon of hope for those “more human than human.”

The Remaking: Marybeth, a principled lawyer, plunges into a moral crucible when her teenage daughter needs rescuing from the hands of a violent drug dealer. She must choose between the moral code she’s spent a lifetime upholding or descend to the ruthless criminal methods her wealthy benefactor, Adriana, offers.

Each story in From Possibilities Become is a journey of self-discovery, brimming with suspense, psychological intrigue, and unforeseen twists. If you crave rich characterisation, suspenseful plots, and psychological intrigue, dive into these introductory novellas to The Trust Series.

Perfect for fans of the haunting revelations in The Historian, the emotional depth in The Time Traveler’s Wife, and the genre-blending thrills in The Alienist. Order now and immerse yourself in these twisting tales of suspense and psychological intrigue.

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